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]
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| Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
| Family: | Geoscelionidae Engel & Huang, 2017 |
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Taxonomy
edit- †Geoscelio Engel and Huang, 2016 (1 species) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Archaeoscelio Brues, 1940 (2 species) Baltic amber, Eocene
- †Cobaloscelio Johnson and Masner 2007 (2 species) Baltic amber, Eocene
- Plaumannion Masner & Johnson (2 species) southeastern Brazil and Venezuela
- Huddlestonium Polaszek & Johnson (1 species) sub-Saharan Africa
References
edit- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.