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Mutilidae
5,000
Velvet ants. Not true ants, commonest in arid tropics, these are idiobiont ectoparasitoids of aculate larvae and pupae in their cells. Great sexual dimorphism.
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538 Hymenoptera TABLE II Continued
Superfamily
Family
Described extant species
Notes
Vespoidea (cont.)
Apoidea
Pompilidae
Rhopalosommatidae
Sapygidae
Scoliidae
Sierolomorphidae Tiphiidae
Vespidae
Apidae Sphecidae
4,000
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