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| Stephanus serrator | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Stephanoidea |
| Family: | Stephanidae Leach, 1815 |
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The Stephanidae, sometimes called crown wasps,[1] are a family of parasitoid wasps. They are the only living members of the superfamily Stephanoidea. Stephanidae has at least 345 living species in 11 genera.[2] The family is considered cosmopolitan in distribution, with the highest species concentrations in subtropical and moderate climate zones.[2] Stephanidae also contain four extinct genera described from both compression fossils and inclusions in amber.[1]
- ^ a b Engel, Michael; Ortega-Blanco, Jaime (2008). "The fossil crown wasp Electrostephanus petiolatus Brues in Baltic Amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanidae): designation of a neotype, revised classification, and a key to amber Stephanidae". ZooKeys (4): 55–64. doi:10.3897/zookeys.4.49. hdl:2445/36428.
- ^ a b Hong, Chun-dan; van Achterberg, Cornelis; Xu, Zai-fu (2011). "A revision of the Chinese Stephanidae (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea)". ZooKeys (110): 1–108. doi:10.3897/zookeys.110.918. PMC 3119843. PMID 21852933.