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Mesitiinae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Taxonomy
Mesitiini was named by Kieffer (1914). It is extant. Its type is Mesitius.

It was reranked as the subfamily Mesitiinae by Azevedo et al. (2018), Colombo et al. (2020) and Brazidec et al. (2023).

It was assigned to Bethylidae by Azevedo et al. (2018), Colombo et al. (2020) and Brazidec et al. (2023).

Subtaxa
Mesitius (type genus)

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2018Mesitiinae Azevedo et al. p. 181
2020Mesitiinae Colombo et al.
2023Mesitiinae Brazidec et al. p. 365

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
Aculeata()
superfamilyChrysidoidea
familyBethylidaeForster 1856
subfamilyMesitiinae()
subfamilyMesitiinae()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Subfm. Mesitiinae Kieffer 1914
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G. Mesitius Spinola 1851
Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available