SPHECOIDEA
(a superfamily of solitary wasps)

Taxonomic hierarchy:

Superfamily	SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)
Infraorder	Aculeata (aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)
Suborder	APOCRITA (bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)
Order	HYMENOPTERA (ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)
Division	Endopterygota (bees, beetles, flies, moths and other insects with wings developing internally)
Infraclass	Neoptera (bees, beetles, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other advanced insects)
Subclass	PTERYGOTA (bees, beetles, dragonflies, flies, grasshoppers, moths and other winged insects)
Class	INSECTA (true insects)
Subphylum	HEXAPODA (insects and other 6-legged organisms)
Phylum	ARTHROPODA (arthropods)
Superphylum	ECDYSOZOA (skin shedders)
Clade	Bilateria (bilaterally symmetrical animals)
Subkingdom	EUMETAZOA (metazoans)
Kingdom	ANIMALIA (animals)
Domain	Eukaryota (eukaryotes)
Life	BIOTA (living things)

SPHECOIDEA is also a member of:
Invertebrates - Invertebrates (via Arthropoda)

Identification Works

	Author	Year	Title	Source
	Peeters, T.M.J., Van Achterberg, C., Heitmans, W.R.B., Klein, W.F., Lefeber, V., Van Loon, A.J., Mabelis, A.A., Nieuwenhuijsen, H. Reemer, M., De Rond, J., Smit, J. & Velthuis, H.H.W.	2004	De Wespen en Mieren van Nederland (Hymenoptera : Aculeata)	Nederlandse Fauna, No 6, 516pp, Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum Naturalis
	Richards, O.W.	1980	Scolioidea, Vespoidea and Sphecoidea	Handbooks for the Identification of Britsh Insects, Vol VI. Part 3(b), 118pp, The Royal Entomological Society of London
()	Yeo, P.F., & Corbet, S.A.	1995	Solitary Wasps	Naturalists’ Handbooks, 3, The Richmond Publishing Co. Ltd

SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps) may also be included in identification literature listed under the following higher taxa:

Aculeata
(aculeates: bees, wasps and ants)

APOCRITA
(bees, wasps, ants and parasitoids)

HYMENOPTERA
(ants, bees and wasps, sawflies and parasitoid wasps)

INSECTA
(true insects)

HEXAPODA
(insects and other 6-legged organisms)

ARTHROPODA
(arthropods)

ANIMALIA
(animals)

Eukaryota
(eukaryotes)

BIOTA
(living things)

BioInfo (www.bioinfo.org.uk) has 0 host/parasite/foodplant and/or other relationships for SPHECOIDEA (a superfamily of solitary wasps)

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Taxonomic hierarchy:

SPHECOIDEA is also a member of:

Identification Works

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