The PEDIGREE of
Superfamily Apoidea (bees : sphecoid wasps)
 "Child(ren)":       Epifamily Crabronoidae   ;   Ampulicidae (cockroach wasps)   ;   Andrenidae (mining bees)   ;   Colletidae (yellow-faced bees : plasterer bees)   ;   Halictidae (sweat bees)   ;   Heterogynaidae   ;   Megachilidae (leaf-cutting bees : mason bees etc.)   ;   Melittidae   ;   Stenotritidae   ;   Sphecidae (thread-waisted wasps :: digger wasps & mud daubers etc.)   ;   20000+ species altogether
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/-- Clade of Bilateria and Placozoa   +====> [ 73]
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Branch Bilateria
/-- Infrakingdom (Grade) of Coelomates
/   / (skip this generation?)
/-- Subgrade of Protostomia
/   / or: Clade Nephrozoa
/-- Superphylum Ecdysozoa (Arthropods, Roundworms, etc.)
/-- Supraphylum Panarthropoda
/-- Phylum Arthropoda
/-- Subphylum Tetraconata
/   / or: Superclass Panhexapoda in Infraphylum Atelocerata
/-- Epiclass Hexapoda
/-- Class Insecta
/-- Subclass Pterygota (winged insects)
/-- Infraclass Neoptera
/-- Superorder Endopterygota
/-- Order Hymenoptera (sawflies : wasps : ants)
/-- Suborder Apocrita (wasps : ants)
/  
- Superfamily Apoidea (bees : sphecoid wasps)
 
 
  ``2-Great Grandchild:''       Clade Corbiculata
 
  ``7-Great Grandchild:''       Malabar melastome
 

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