The Gallorommatidae is an extinct family of microscopic parasitoid wasps, belonging to the Mymarommatoidea. It is known from several species found in Cretaceous aged amber.[1][2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Infraorder: | Proctotrupomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Mymarommatoidea Gibson et al., 2007 |
| Family: | †Gallorommatidae Schlüter, 1978 |
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Species
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- †Galloromma agapa[3] from Taimyr amber, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Galloromma alavaensis[4] from the Escucha Formation, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
- †Galloromma bezonnaisensis[5] from Bezonnais amber, France, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Galloromma kachinensis[2] from Burmese amber, mid Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian)
- †Cretaceomma[6]
- †Cretaceomma libanensis from Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
- †Cretaceomma turolensis also from the Eschucha Formation.
References
edit- ^ Gibson, G.A.P.; Read, J.; Huber, J.T. (2007) Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 51–146.
- ^ a b Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110: 159–168.
- ^ M. A. Kozlov and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1979. Ob ob'yeme semeystva Serphitidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 57:402-416
- ^ Ortega-Blanco, Jaime; Peñalver, Enrique; Delclòs, Xavier; Engel, Michael S. (May 2011). "False fairy wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea): MYMAROMMATOIDS IN SPANISH CRETACEOUS AMBER". Palaeontology. 54 (3): 511–523. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01049.x.
- ^ Schluter, T. (1978). "Zur Systematik und Palokologie harzkonservierter Arthropoda einer Taphozonose aus dem Cenomanium von NW Frankreich. Berlin". Geowiss. Abhandl. (A). 9: 1–150.
- ^ Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Maalouf, Mounir; Maalouf, Ramy; Azar, Dany (2022-04-22). "New Serphitidae and Gallorommatidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Microprocta) in the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber". Palaeoentomology. 5 (2). doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.2.4. ISSN 2624-2834.
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