Diaprioidea Explained

Diaprioidea is a hymenopteran superfamily containing five extant families;^{[1] [2]} in the past these families were included in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea.

Families

• Austroniidae has a single genus endemic to temperate forests of south-east Australia and Tasmania;
• Diapriidae has a cosmopolitan distribution with more than 1900 species in about 174 genera;^[3]
• Ismaridae has a single genus with a cosmopolitan distribution;
• Maamingidae has a single genus endemic to New Zealand;
• Monomachidae has two genera from Australia, New Guinea and South America;
• Spathiopterygidae (extinct).

Notes and References

1. Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera . 10.1111/j.1096-0031.2011.00366.x . 2012 . Sharkey . Michael J. . Carpenter . James M. . Vilhelmsen . Lars . Heraty . John . Liljeblad . Johan . Dowling . Ashley P.G. . Schulmeister . Susanne . Murray . Debra . Deans . Andrew R. . Ronquist . Fredrik . Krogmann . Lars . Wheeler . Ward C. . Cladistics . 28 . 1 . 80–112 . 34861753 .
2. Peters. Ralph S.. Krogmann. Lars. Mayer. Christoph. Donath. Alexander. Gunkel. Simon. Meusemann. Karen. Kozlov. Alexey. Podsiadlowski. Lars. Petersen. Malte. Lanfear. Robert. Diez. Patricia A.. Heraty. John. Kjer. Karl M.. Klopfstein. Seraina. Meier. Rudolf. Polidori. Carlo. Schmitt. Thomas. Liu. Shanlin. Zhou. Xin. Wappler. Torsten. Rust. Jes. Misof. Bernhard. Niehuis. Oliver. Evolutionary History of the Hymenoptera. Current Biology. April 2017. 27. 7. 1013–1018. 10.1016/j.cub.2017.01.027. 28343967. free. 2017CBio...27.1013P . 2434/801122. free.
3. Yoder, M. J. (2010). Advances in diapriid (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) systematics, with contributions to cybertaxonomy and the analysis of rRNA sequence data (Doctoral dissertation, Texas A & M University). https://oaktrust.library.tamu.edu/handle/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1301