| Myrmosidae | |
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| femaleMyrmosa atra | |
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| maleMyrmosa unicolor | |
Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Pompiloidea |
| Family: | Myrmosidae Fox, 1894 |
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TheMyrmosidae are a small family of wasps very similar to theMutillidae, and in the samesuperfamily, butsister taxon toSapygidae.[1] As in mutillids, females are flightless, and arekleptoparasites in the nests of fossorial bees and wasps.
Recent classifications ofVespoideasensu lato (beginning in 2008) concluded that the familyMutillidae contained one subfamily that was unrelated to the remainder, and this subfamily was removed to form a separate family Myrmosidae.[2][3] Myrmosids can be readily distinguished from mutillids by the lack of abdominal "felt lines" in both sexes, and the retention of a distinct pronotum in females (pronotum fused to mesonotum in mutillids).
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