Bradynobaenidae


The Bradynobaenidae are a family of wasps similar to the Mutillidae, differing most visibly in the presence, in females, of a suture separating the pronotum from the mesonotum. These species are often found in arid regions.

Taxonomy

Recent classifications remove two of the constituent subfamilies, both from the New World, to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the Old World.
The retained genera are classified as follows:

Subfamily Apterogyninae

Apterogyna Latreille, 1809Gynecaptera Skorikov, 1935Macroocula Panfilov, 1954Micatagla Argaman, 1994

Subfamily Bradynobaeninae

Bradynobaenus Spinola, 1851

Genera placed in Chyphotidae

Five genera were transferred to Chyphotidae and are no longer considered members of Bradynobaenidae:Chyphotes Blake, 1886Eotilla Schuster, 1949Prototilla Schuster, 1949Typhoctes Ashmead, 1899Typhoctoides Brothers, 1974