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Geoscelionidae

Classification and checklist of geoscelionid wasps

 

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily Platygastroidea; Family: Geoscelionidae)

  • Family Geoscelionidae

    • Genus Archaeoscelio† Brues, 1940

    • Genus Cobaloscelio† Johnson & Masner, 2007

    • Genus Geoscelio† Engel & Huang, 2017

    • Genus Huddlestonium Polaszek & Johnson, 2007 (Afrotropical)

    • Genus Plaumannion Masner & Johnson, 2007 (Neotropical)

      • Plaumannion fritzi Masner & Johnson, 2007 (Brazil)

      • Plaumannion yepezi Garcia, 2007 (Venezuela)

References

Chen H-Y, Lahey Z, Talamas EJ, Valerio AA,  Popovici OA, Musetti L, Klompen H, Polaszek A, Masner L, Austin AD, Johnson NF. 2021. An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification. Systematic Entomology 46(4): 1088-1113.

https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12511

Engel, M.S. & Krombein, K.V. 2012. Hymenoptera. In: McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology. McGraw-Hill Professional, New York.

Johnson, N. F. 1992. Catalog of world Proctotrupoidea excluding Platygastridae. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute 51: 1-825.

Masner L, Johnson NF, Polaszek A 2007. Redescription of Archaeoscelio Brues and description of three new genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera): a challenge to the definition of the family. American Museum Novitates 3550: 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2007)3550[1:ROABAD]2.0.CO;2

McKellar, R.C. & Engel, M.S. 2012. Hymenoptera in Canadian Cretaceous amber (Insecta). Cretaceous Research 35: 258-279.

Ortega-Blanco, J., McKellar, R.C. & Engel, M.S. 2014. Diverse scelionid wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Bulletin of Geosciences 89: 553–571.

Credits

Photographs © Norman Johnson (OSUC).


Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2024. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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