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†Diversinitidae
Haas, Burks and Krogmann

†Diversinitid wasps of the world

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea)

Classification

†Diversinitidae Haas, Burks and Krogmann 2018
†Diversinitus Haas, Burks and Krogmann 2018
  †Burminata Haas, Burks and Krogmann 2018
 

†Glabiala Haas, Burks and Krogmann 2018
Distribution Only known from Burmese amber from Myanmar. Dating to the late upper-Cretaceous Cenomanian period (about 99 Ma), Diversinitidae represent some of the earliest known members of Chalcidoidea (Haas, 2025).
Biology Unknown.

References

Haas M, Burks RA, Krogmann L. 2018. A new lineage of Cretaceous jewel wasps (Chalcidoidea: Diversinitidae)". PeerJ. 6: e4633. doi:10.7717/peerj.4633

Haas M. 2025. Diversinitidae, Chapter 23, pp. 310-314 in J.M. Heraty and J.B. Woolley (eds), Chalcidoidea of the World, CABI Press, Oxford, UK. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800623545.0023

UCD Community. 2023. Universal Chalcidoidea Database Website. https://ucd.chalcid.org.

Credits

Photographs © Steve Compton (Leeds University)

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. 2026. WaspWeb: Hymenoptera of the World. URL: www.waspweb.org (accessed on <day/month/year>).

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