Apoidea
Translingual
editEtymology
editProper noun
editApoidea
- A taxonomic superfamily within the order Hymenoptera – bees and certain wasps.
Usage notes
edit- Wasps in this group were previously collected in the now obsolete superfamily Sphecoidea (synonymous with the series Spheciformes), which grouping is, however, paraphyletic. Bees are now thought to have descended from wasps from the family Crabronidae.
Hypernyms
edit- (superfamily): Eukaryota – superkingdom; Animalia – kingdom; Bilateria – subkingdom; Protostomia – infrakingdom; Ecdysozoa – superphylum; Arthropoda – phylum; Hexapoda – subphylum; Insecta – class; Pterygota – subclass; Neoptera – infraclass; Holometabola – superorder; Hymenoptera – order; Apocrita - suborder
Hyponyms
edit- (superfamily): Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps), Andrenidae (mining bees), Apidae (many bees, including honey bees), Colletidae (masked bees, miner bees and plasterer bees), Crabronidae (some wasps), Halictidae (sweat bees), Heterogynaidae (certain wasps), Megachilidae, Melittidae, Sphecidae (thread-waisted wasps), Stenotritidae (now subfamily Stenotritinae in Colletidae) (families)
- †Angarosphecidae, †Paleomelittidae (extinct families)
References
edit- Apoidea on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Apoidea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Category:Apoidea on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
- Apoidea at Integrated Taxonomic Information System.