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Vespoidea

About: Vespoidea is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 1365 publications have been published within this topic receiving 11769 citations.


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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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TL;DR: This work collects molecular data from four nuclear genes and uses this topology as the best estimate of phylogeny at the family and subfamily levels of Vespoidea, and proposes a new classification of Aculeata that recognizes eight superfamilies.
Abstract: The 24 000+ described species of Vespoidea include many well-known stinging wasps, such as paper wasps and hornets (Vespidae), velvet ants (Mutillidae), spider wasps (Pompilidae) and ants (Formicidae). The compelling behaviours of vespoids have been instrumental in developing theories of stepwise evolutionary transitions, which necessarily depend on an understanding of phylogeny, yet, existing morphological phylogenies for Vespoidea conflict. We collected molecular data from four nuclear genes (elongation factor-1α F2 copy, long-wavelength rhodopsin, wingless and the D2–D3 regions of 28S ribosomal RNA (2700 bp in total)) to produce the first molecular phylogeny of Vespoidea. We analysed molecular data alone and in combination with published morphological data from Brothers and Carpenter. Parsimony analyses left many deeper nodes unsupported, but suggested paraphyly of three families. Total-evidence Bayesian inference produced a more resolved tree, in which the monophyly of Vespoidea was nevertheless ambiguous. Bayesian inference of molecular data alone returned a well-resolved consensus with posterior probabilities of over 95% for most nodes. We used this topology as the best estimate of phylogeny at the family and subfamily levels. Notable departures from previous estimates include: (i) paraphyly of Vespoidea resulting from the nesting of Apoidea within a lineage comprising Formicidae, Scoliidae and two subfamilies of Bradynobaenidae; (ii) paraphyly of Bradynobaenidae, Mutillidae and Tiphiidae; (iii) a sister relationship between Rhopalosomatidae and Vespidae; and (iv) Rhopalosomatidae + Vespidae as sister to all other vespoids/apoids. We discuss character evidence in light of the new phylogeny, and propose a new classification of Aculeata that recognizes eight superfamilies: Apoidea, Chrysidoidea, Formicoidea, Pompiloidea, Scolioidea, Tiphioidea, Thynnoidea and Vespoidea.

133 citations

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TL;DR: Attention will here be directed to behavior patterns common to all solitary wasps (more especially to fossorial species) and to some of the important questions being asked about them by contemporary workers.
Abstract: Some of the more conspicuous features of wasp behavior were reported more than two centuries ago, but it was not until the publication of the first volume of Fabre's Souvenirs Entomotogiques in 1879 (66) that the attractive­ ness of this field of investigation became widely apparent. The classic work of Fabre and those of Ferton (68), Adlerz (1), G. W. & E. G. Peckham (159), and P. & N. Rau (173) are widely known and have provided a broad founda­ tion for the natural history of wasps. More recently, the influence of the "European school" of ethologists, exemplified particularly by Tinbergen and Baerends, has been strongly felt. In a sense, the modern era of wasp ethology may be said to have begun with Baerends' extended study of Ammophila pubescens Curtis in 1941 (5) and with Iwata's "Comparative Studies on the Habits of Solitary Wasps" in 1942 (88), for both of these papers have had an important impact on research in this field in the past 25 years. These two papers are accepted as points of departure for the present review; these and other papers cited below contain bibliographies which collectively cover much of the very extensive literature in this field. I have omitted mention of many strictly descriptive studies, not because these are unimportant as contributing to the comparative ethology of wasps, but simply because a very large volume would be needed to survey this field fully. Attention will here be directed to behavior patterns common to all solitary wasps (more especially to fossorial species) and to some of the important questions being asked about them by contemporary workers. I have omitted consideration of wasps parasitic upon other wasps, including both parasitoids (such as M utillidae) and cleptoparasites (c1epto­ bionts, arbeitsparasiten) [such as Evagetes and Ceropales in the Pompilidae, Nysson and Stizoides in the Sphecidae (30, 37, 63, 73, 156, 220)]. Solitary wasps are defined as species in which there is no cooperation involving divis­ ion of labor between mothers and daughters or between females of the same gener ation. All social wasps belong to a portion of the superfamily Vespoidea, to the family Vespidae as defined by Richards (177); he regards the social wasps as probably monophyletic, although this opinion has not been univer­ sally accepted in the past. The nonparasitic solitary wasps considered here belong to seven families commonly placed in five superfamilies, as follows: Bethyloidea: Bethylidae; Scolioidea: Tiphiidae, Scoliidae; Vespoidea:

119 citations

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