Gallorommatidae

The Gallorommatidae is a family of microscopic hymenopteran insects, known from five fossil species in a single genus, Galloromma.[1][2] These are Galloromma agapa[3] from the Taimyr amber, Galloromma alavaensis[4] from the Escucha Formation, Galloromma bezonnaisensis[5] from French amber, Galloromma kachinensis[2] from Burmese amber and Galloromma turolensis also from the Eschucha Formation.

Gallorommatidae
Temporal range: Albian–Santonian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Mymarommatoidea
Family: †Gallorommatidae
Gibson et al, 2007
Genera

†Galloromma Schlüter, 1978

References
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. M. A. Kozlov and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1979. Ob ob'yeme semeystva Serphitidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie 57:402-416
  4. 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.
  5. T. Schlüter. 1978. Zur Systematik und Palökologie harzkonservierter Arthropoda einer Taphozönose aus dem Cenomanium von NW-Frankreich. Berliner Geowissenschaftliche Abhandlungen, Reihe A 9:1-150


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