Stephanoidea

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title: "Stephanoidea" type: doc version: 1 created: 2026-02-28 author: "Wikipedia contributors" status: active scope: public tags: ["apocrita", "apocrita-superfamilies"] description: "Superfamily of wasps" topic_path: "general/apocrita" source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephanoidea" license: "CC BY-SA 4.0" wikipedia_page_id: 0 wikipedia_revision_id: 0

::summary Superfamily of wasps ::

| oldest_fossil = Early Jurassic | image = Stephanid Wasp (Foenatopus albomaculatus) on my laptop (13759834805).jpg | image_caption = Foenatopus albomaculatus | image2 = Aptenoperissus burmanicus.jpg | image2_caption = Aptenoperissus burmanicus | taxon = Stephanoidea | authority = Leach, 1815 | subdivision = *Stephanidae

• †Ephialtitidae
• †Aptenoperissidae
• †Myanmarinidae
• †Ohlhoffiidae

Stephanoidea is a superfamily of parasitic wasps within the Apocrita; it includes only one living family, Stephanidae (350 living species mid Cretaceous-recent), as well as the extinct families Ephialtitidae (89 species, Early Jurassic-mid Cretaceous), Aptenoperissidae (8 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber), Myanmarinidae (4 species, mid Cretaceous, Burmese amber) and Ohlhoffiidae (4 species, Early-mid Cretaceous).

References

References

1. (2021-01-01). "Ohlhoffiidae, a new Cretaceous family of basal parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea)". Cretaceous Research.

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