Geoscelionidae

Geoscelionidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily Platygastroidea. It contains three extant species in two genera, native to South America and Africa, and several other genera known from fossils.[1] It was originally erected as the tribe Geoscelionini within Scelionidae.[2] It was raised to a full family in 2021.[1]

Geoscelionidae
Temporal range:
Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Platygastroidea
Family: Geoscelionidae
Engel & Huang, 2017
Genera

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Taxonomy
  • †Geoscelio (1 species) Engel and Huang, 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
  • †Archaeoscelio (2 species) Brues, 1940 Baltic amber, Eocene
  • †Cobaloscelio (2 species) Johnson and Masner 2007 Baltic amber, Eocene
  • Plaumannion (2 species) Masner & Johnson Southeastern Brazil and Venezuela
  • Huddlestonium (1 species) Polaszek & Johnson, Sub-Saharan Africa

References
  1. Chen, Huayan; Lahey, Zachary; Talamas, Elijah J.; Valerio, Alejandro A.; Popovici, Ovidiu A.; Musetti, Luciana; Klompen, Hans; Polaszek, Andrew; Masner, Lubomír; Austin, Andrew D.; Johnson, Norman F. (2021). "An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 1088–1113. doi:10.1111/syen.12511. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 237486714.
  2. Engel, Michael S.; Huang, Diying; Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.; Cai, Chenyang; Alvarado, Mabel; Breitkreuz, Laura C.V.; Azar, Dany (January 2017). "An apterous scelionid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16 (1): 5–11. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.03.005. ISSN 1631-0683.
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