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 (beginning in 2008) remove two of the constituent subfamilies, both from the

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, to a separate family Chyphotidae, thus restricting true bradynobaenids to the

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. The retained genera are classified as follows:

Subfamily Apterogyninae

* '' Apterogyna'' Latreille, 1809 * '' Gynecaptera'' Skorikov, 1935 * '' Macroocula'' Panfilov, 1954 * '' Micatagla'' Argaman, 1994 (at least 54 living species per Gadallah, et al., 2019)

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, 1886 * '' Eotilla'' Schuster, 1949 * '' Prototilla'' Schuster, 1949 * '' Typhoctes'' Ashmead, 1899 * '' Typhoctoides'' Brothers, 1974

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