Chyphotidae

Chyphotidae
Chyphotes male, Arizona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Vespoidea
Family:	Chyphotidae
Genera
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The Chyphotidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae. These species are found primarily in arid regions in the southwestern United States and adjacent regions in Mexico.

Recent classifications of Vespoidea (beginning in 2008) removed two of the five genera formerly placed in the family Bradynobaenidae to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World, with chyphotids being restricted to the New World.

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