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Orussidae
Family of wasps / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Orussidae or the parasitic wood wasps represent a small family of sawflies ("Symphyta"). Currently, about 93 extant and four fossil species are known.[2] They take a key position in phylogenetic analyses of Hymenoptera, because they form the sister taxon of the megadiverse apocritan wasps, and the common ancestor of Orussidae + Apocrita evolved parasitism for the first time in course of the evolution of the Hymenoptera. They are also the only sawflies with carnivorous larvae.
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Orussidae | |
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Orussus abietinus | |
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Orussus coronatus Fabricius, 1798,[1] junior synonym of O. abietinus (Scopoli, 1763) and type species of Orussus Latreille, 1797. | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Orussoidea |
Family: | Orussidae Newman, 1834 |
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