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TL;DR: The development of ideas on the phylogeny of the aculeate Hymenoptera, especially Vespoidea and Chrysidoidea, since Brothers and Carpenter's 1986 studies is reviewed and the final preferred cladogram indicates the following relationships.
Abstract: The development of ideas on the phylogeny of the aculeate Hymenoptera, especially Vespoidea and Chrysidoidea, since Brothers's 1975 and Carpenter's 1986 studies is reviewed. The results oftheir detailed analyses of aculeate higher taxa are re-evaluated in the light of new information and/or reinterpretations by subsequent workers. Almost all of their earlier results, including the relationships within the Chrysidoidea, the holophyly of Vespoidea (including Pompilidae), the sister-group relationship ofScoliidae (including Proscoliinae) and Vespidae, that of Sapygidae and Mutillidae (including Myrmosinae), and the composition of Bradynobaenidae are confirmed. The final preferred cladogram, using 219 variables and based on ground plans for all families of Chrysidoidea and Vespoidea and three taxa of Apoidea, indicates the following relationships (components of the superfamilies included within curly brackets): {Plumariidae + (Scolebythidae + «Bethylidae + Chrysididae) + (Sclerogibbidae + (Dryinidae + Embolemidae»)))} + ({Heterogynaidae + (Sphecidae s.l. + Apidae s.l.)} + {Sierolomorphidae + (Tiphiidae + (Pompilidae + (Sapygidae + Mutillidae») + (Rhopalosomatidae + (Bradynobaenidae + (Formicidae + (Scoliidae + Vespidae»»)}).

144 citations




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31 Dec 1993
TL;DR: The ponerine ant Amblyopone silvestrii in nature and in the laboratory observation showed skillful hunting behavior which is highly specialized on large, linear-shaped soil arthropods.
Abstract: Eighty percent of the prey captured by the ponerine ant Amblyopone silvestrii in nature were geophilomorph centipedes. In the laboratory observation, this ant showed skillful hunting behavior which is highly specialized on large, linear-shaped soil arthropods. Specialization on centipedes, migratory behavior and hemolymph feeding are common in the members of the Amblyoponini and the Leptanillinae.

18 citations