Roproniidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, of which only two genera are still extant, the others being fossils.[1][2][3][4] Species are known from Eurasia and North America. At least some living species are known to parasitise the larvae of tenthredinid sawflies.[5]
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| Specimen of Ropronia sp. observed in Illinois | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Proctotrupoidea |
| Family: | Roproniidae Viereck 1916 |
Extant genera
edit- Ropronia Provancher, 1887 Asia, North America
- Xiphyropronia He & Chen, 1991 China
Fossil genera
edit- † Beipiaosirex Hong, 1983 Haifanggou Formation, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
- † Jeholoropronia Ren, 1995 Yixian Formation, China Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
- †Mesohelorus Martynov 1925 Haifanggou Formation, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian), Karabastau Formation, Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian)
- † Mesoropronia Rasnitsyn, 1990 Turga, Russia, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
- † Paleoropronia Garrouste et al., 2016 Menat Formation, France, Paleocene
- †Protohelorus Kozlov 1968 Karabastau Formation, Middle-Late Jurassic (Callovian/Oxfordian)
- †Phoriostephanus Engel & Huang, 2016 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) (originally assigned to Stephanidae)
References
edit- ^ "Roproniidae Report". Integrated Taxonomic Information System. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Roproniidae". GBIF. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "Family Roproniidae information". BugGuide.net. Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ "The Paleobiology Database, family Roproniidae". Retrieved 2019-05-24.
- ^ Garrouste, Romain; Pouillon, Jean-Marc; Nel, André (2016-10-25). "The first Cenozoic roproniid wasp from the Paleocene of Menat, France (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea)". European Journal of Taxonomy (239). doi:10.5852/ejt.2016.239. ISSN 2118-9773.
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