Pelecinus

Pelecinus

Pelecinus polyturator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Superfamily:	Proctotrupoidea
Family:	Pelecinidae
Genus:	Pelecinus Latreille, 1800
Species
Pelecinus dichrous Perty, 1833 Pelecinus polyturator (Drury), 1773 Pelecinus thoracicus Klug, 1841

The genus Pelecinus is the only living member of the family Pelecinidae (there are also two fossil genera), and contains only three species, restricted to the New World. One species, Pelecinus polyturator, occurs from North through South America, and the others occur in Mexico (Pelecinus thoracicus) and South America (Pelecinus dichrous). The females are glossy wasps, very long (up to 7 cm) and the abdomen is extremely attenuated, used to lay eggs directly on scarab larvae buried in the soil.

Extant Hymenopteran families

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Infraclass: Neoptera
Superorder: Endopterygota

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Xyeloidea	Xyelidae

Pamphilioidea	Megalodontesidae Pamphiliidae (web-spinning sawflies)

Tenthredinoidea	Argidae (argid sawflies) Blasticotomidae (fern sawflies) Cimbicidae (cimbicid sawflies) Diprionidae (conifer sawflies) Pergidae (pergid sawflies) Tenthredinidae (common sawflies)

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Cephoidea	Cephidae (stem sawflies)

Siricoidea	Anaxyelidae (cedar wood wasps) Siricidae (horntails)

Xiphydrioidea	Xiphydriidae (wood wasps)

Orussoidea	Orussidae (parasitic wood wasps)

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Stephanoidea

Stephanidae

Ichneumonoidea

Proctotrupomorpha

Platygastroidea	Platygastridae Scelionidae

Cynipoidea	Austrocynipidae Cynipidae (gall wasps) Figitidae Ibaliidae Liopteridae

Proctotrupoidea (s.str.)	Proctorenyxidae Roproniidae Heloridae Pelecinidae Peradeniidae Proctotrupidae Vanhorniidae

Diaprioidea	Austroniidae Diapriidae Maamingidae Monomachidae

Mymarommatoidea	Mymarommatidae

Chalcidoidea (chalcid wasps)	Agaonidae (fig wasps) Aphelinidae Chalcididae Encyrtidae Eucharitidae Eulophidae Eupelmidae Eurytomidae Leucospidae Mymaridae (fairyflies) Ormyridae Perilampidae Pteromalidae Rotoitidae Signiphoridae Tanaostigmatidae Tetracampidae Torymidae Trichogrammatidae

Ceraphronoidea

Megalyroidea

Megalyridae

Trigonaloidea

Trigonalidae

Evanioidea

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Apoidea

Anthophila (bees)	Andrenidae (mason bees) Apidae (honey bees, bumblebees, cuckoo bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, stingless bees) Colletidae (plasterer bees) Halictidae (sweat bees) Megachilidae (mason bees, leafcutter bees) Melittidae Stenotritidae

Spheciformes (sphecoid wasps)	Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps) Crabronidae (sand wasps, bee wolves) Heterogynaidae Sphecidae (thread-waisted wasps)

Chrysidoidea

Vespoidea

Italic are paraphyletic groups

Based on Malm and Nyman (2015)

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