Platygastroidea

The Hymenopteran superfamily of parasitoid wasps, Platygastroidea, has often been treated as a lineage within the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, but most classifications since 1977 have recognized it as an independent group. It is presently composed of one extinct and three extant families, with some 4000 described species.[1] They are exclusively parasitic in nature.

Platygastroidea
Temporal range: Cretaceous-Present
A platygastrid wasp (Leptacis sp.)
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
(unranked): Proctotrupomorpha
Superfamily: Platygastroidea
Families

The family Scelionidae was briefly considered to be a subfamily of the Platygastridae,[2][3] though subsequent analyses suggest that Scelionidae can be retained as a monophyletic lineage if a few genera are removed.[1]

Trissolcus (family Scelionidae) on Chinavia eggs

References
  1. Talamas EJ, Johnson NF, Shih C, Ren D (2019) Proterosceliopsidae: A new family of Platygastroidea from Cretaceous amber. In: Talamas E (Eds) Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea II. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73: 3-38. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.32256
  2. Aguiar et al. 2013
  3. Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13โ€“48.
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