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Thynnoidea is a superfamily of hymenopterans in the order 
Hymenoptera
Hymenoptera is a large order (biology), order of insects, comprising the sawfly, sawflies, wasps, bees, and ants. Over 150,000 living species of Hymenoptera have been described, in addition to over 2,000 extinct ones. Many of the species are Par ...
. There are at least 2 families and about 10 described species in Thynnoidea.
Families
These two families belong to the superfamily Thynnoidea: *Chyphotidae
The Chyphotidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum. These species are found primarily in arid regions in the southwestern Uni ...
(chyphotid wasps)
* Thynnidae
The Thynnidae (also known as thynnid wasps or flower wasps) are a family of large, solitary wasps whose larvae are almost universally parasitoids of various beetle larvae, especially those in the superfamily Scarabaeoidea. Until recently, the co ...
(thynnid wasps)
References
Further reading
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* Apocrita Apocrita superfamilies {{hymenoptera-stub