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| | Stephanidae: Taxonomy & Images |
 | | Eventually, almost all of them were discarded as more detailed studies appeared in the literature, leaving the correct placement of the family among the Hymenoptera as a problem that is still in need of a solution. |
 | | Many past and contemporary authors insisted in the idea that the Stephanidae would be part of the Ichneumonoidea (e.g. |
 | | Sharkey & Wahl (1992), however, have demonstrated that the Stephanidae share only one of the autapomorphies of the Ichneumonoidea (loss of 2r-m on the front wing), which also occurs, by convergence, in all major groups of Apoidea, showing that there is no evidence to suport Stephanidae as part of Ichneumonoidea. |
| hymfiles.biosci.ohio-state.edu /projects/stephanids/taxonomy.html (538 words) |
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