Chyphotidae

Chyphotidae
	Chyphotes male
	Chyphotes female
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Thynnoidea
Family:	Chyphotidae
Genera
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The Chyphotidae are a family of wasps with wingless females 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 United States and adjacent regions in Mexico.

Taxonomy

Recent classifications of Vespoidea sensu lato (beginning in 2008) removed two of the subfamilies formerly placed in the family Bradynobaenidae to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World, with chyphotids being restricted to the New World.^[1]^[2]

The genera are classified as follows:^[3]

Subfamily Chyphotinae

Chyphotes Blake, 1886

Subfamily Typhoctinae

Tribe Eotillini

Eotilla Schuster, 1949
Prototilla Schuster, 1949

Tribe Typhoctini

Typhoctes Ashmead, 1899
Typhoctoides Brothers, 1974

References

^ Pilgrim, E.; von Dohlen, C.; Pitts, J. (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (5): 539–560. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00340.x. S2CID 85905070.
^ Johnson, B.R.; et al. (2013). "Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps". Current Biology. 23 (20): 2058–2062. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.050. PMID 24094856.
^ Torréns, Javier; Fidalgo, Patricio; Roig-Alsina, Arturo; Brothers, Dennis J (2014). "Review of the genus Eotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini) and description of new species from Argentina". Zootaxa. 3878 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.1. hdl:11336/29726.

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[Pilgrim2008-1] Pilgrim, E.; von Dohlen, C.; Pitts, J. (2008). "Molecular phylogenetics of Vespoidea indicate paraphyly of the superfamily and novel relationships of its component families and subfamilies". Zoologica Scripta. 37 (5): 539–560. doi:10.1111/j.1463-6409.2008.00340.x. S2CID 85905070.

[Johnson2013-2] Johnson, B.R.; et al. (2013). "Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps". Current Biology. 23 (20): 2058–2062. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2013.08.050. PMID 24094856.

[Torréns2014-3] Torréns, Javier; Fidalgo, Patricio; Roig-Alsina, Arturo; Brothers, Dennis J (2014). "Review of the genus Eotilla Schuster, 1949 (Hymenoptera: Bradynobaenidae: Typhoctinae: Eotillini) and description of new species from Argentina". Zootaxa. 3878 (1): 1–18. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3878.1.1. hdl:11336/29726.

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