Superfamily Cephoidea Newman 1834 (stem sawfly)

Insecta - Hymenoptera

Full reference: E. Newman. 1834. Attempted division of British insect into natural orders. The Entomological Magazine 2:379-431

Parent taxon: Unicalcarida according to J. Heraty et al. 2011

See also Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015 and Sharkey 2007

Sister taxa: Apocrita, Cratoenigma, Orussoidea, Orussomorpha, Siricoidea, Vespina, Xiphydrioidea

Subtaxa: Cephidae Sepulcidae

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Type: Cephus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Canada (2: British Columbia collections), Poland (1), United States (1: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Brazil (6), China (1), Mongolia (8), Myanmar (1), the Russian Federation (16), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of Germany (5), India (1), Kazakhstan (3), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mongolia (4)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

Total: 56 collections including 85 occurrences

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