Family Mutillidae Latreille 1802 (velvet ant)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Mutillidae
Synonym: Cretavidae Sharov 1957
Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467
Parent taxon: Pompiloidea according to G. C. Waldren et al. 2023
See also Rasnitsyn 1975
Sister taxa: Burmusculidae, Myrmosidae, Pompilidae, Sapygidae
Subtaxa: Cretavus
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections)
• Cretaceous of China (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 5 collections including 6 occurrences