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  Apoidea

  The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally-recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees, who appear to be their descendants. Bees appear in recent classifications to be a specialized lineage of crabronid wasps that switched to the...
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  Chrysidoidea

  The superfamily Chrysidoidea or Bethyloidea is a very large cosmopolitan group (some 6000 described species, and many more undescribed) of parasitoid or cleptoparasitic wasps, with three large, common families (Bethylidae, Chrysididae, and Dryinidae) and four tiny, rare families. Most species are...

• Evanioidea

  Evanioidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes three families, two of which (Aulacidae and Gasteruptiidae) are much more closely related to one another than they are to the remaining family, Evaniidae. There is a rich fossil record, however, that helps fill in the gaps between these...

• Megalyridae

  Megalyroidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes a single family, Megalyridae, with 8 genera (plus 3 extinct ones) and at least 45 extant species. Modern megalyrids are found mostly in areas of relict primary tropical forests, and there are very few New World representatives. The most...

• Ceraphronoidea

  Ceraphronoidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes only two families, and a total of some 800 species, though a great many species are still undescribed. It is a poorly-known group as a whole, and most are believed to be parasitoid or hyperparasitoids. The two families are unified by...

• Stephanidae

  Stephanoidea is a small Hymenopteran superfamily that includes a single family, Stephanidae with 9 genera and almost 300 species, primarily tropical and subtropical in distribution. They all have a slender and oddly elongated body, highly modified hind legs, and a somewhat spherical head on a long ...