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Bees and Apoid Wasps
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Bees and Apoid Wasps

Apoidea

The superfamily Apoidea is a major group within the Hymenoptera, which includes two traditionally recognized lineages, the "sphecoid" wasps, and the bees. Molecular phylogeny demonstrates that the bees arose from within the Crabronidae, so that grouping is paraphyletic.

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7 branches of this superfamily, most-observed first

Bees

epifamilyAnthophila

Thread-waisted Wasps

familySphecidae

Square-headed Wasps, Sand Wasps, and Allies

familyCrabronidae

Cockroach Wasps

familyAmpulicidae

Entomosericidae

familyEntomosericidae

Heterogynaidae

familyHeterogynaidae

Eremiaspheciidae

familyEremiaspheciidae

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 47222.