Pompiloidea is a superfamily that includes spider wasps and velvet ants, among others, in the order Hymenoptera. There are 4 extant families in Pompiloidea.
Families Mutillidae (velvet ants) Myrmosidae (myrmosid wasps) Pompilidae (spider wasps) Sapygidae (sapygid wasps)
The extinct family Burmusculidae, known from Cretaceous amber, is also placed here.Longfeng Li; Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn; Chungkun Shih; Daqing Li; Dong Ren (2020). "Two new rare wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita: Panguidae and Burmusculidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 109: Article 104220. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104220
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