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Pompiloidea is a superfamily that includes spider wasps and velvet ants, among others, in the order
Hymenoptera Hymenoptera is a large order of insects, comprising the 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 parasitic. Females typi ...
. There are 4 extant families in Pompiloidea.


Families

* Mutillidae (velvet ants) * Myrmosidae (myrmosid wasps) * Pompilidae (spider wasps) * Sapygidae (sapygid wasps) The extinct family Burmusculidae, known from Cretaceous amber, is also placed here.Longfeng Li; Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn; Chungkun Shih; Daqing Li; Dong Ren (2020). "Two new rare wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita: Panguidae and Burmusculidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 109: Article 104220. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104220


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* Apocrita Apocrita superfamilies {{apocrita-stub