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To provide an updated higher-level classification and comprehensive global census of described extant and extinct taxa within the insect order Hymenoptera.

August 30, 2013ZootaxaOpen Access

Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

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AAAlexandre P. AguiarUniversidade Federal do Espírito Santo ADAndrew DeansThe Ohio State University MEMichael S. EngelCentre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Taxonomic survey reveals extensive species richness in order Hymenoptera, highlighting its status as one of the most diverse insect orders.

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To provide an updated higher-level classification and comprehensive global census of described extant and extinct taxa within the insect order Hymenoptera.
Synthesized taxonomic records to establish an updated hierarchical classification of Hymenoptera.
Enumerated all valid described taxa across ranks, including suborders, superfamilies, families, genera, and species for both living and fossil lineages.
The order Hymenoptera comprises 2 suborders, 27 superfamilies, and 132 families.
The catalog documents 8,423 extant genera and 153,088 described extant species, alongside 685 extinct genera and 2,429 extinct species.

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Aguiar et al. (2013) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a76047fbe276543018c500a https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3703.1.12

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Taxonomic survey reveals extensive species richness in order Hymenoptera, highlighting its status as one of the most diverse insect orders.

Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

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Order Hymenoptera. In: Zhang, Z.-Q. (Ed.) Animal Biodiversity: An Outline of Higher-level Classification and Survey of Taxonomic Richness (Addenda 2013)

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