Sparasionidae
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| Sparasionidae Temporal range: | |
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| Archaeoteleia gilbertae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
| Family: | Sparasionidae Dahlbom, 1858 |
| Genera | |
| See text | |
Sparasionidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily Platygastroidea. Known species are parasitoids of the eggs of orthopterans.[1]
Taxonomy
[edit]- Archaeoteleia Masner – Burmese amber, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Baltic amber, Eocene – New Zealand, Chile, recent
- †Electroteleia Brues – Baltic amber, Eocene
- Mexon Masner & Johnson – Americas
- Listron Musetti & Johnson – Americas
- Sceliomorpha Ashmead – Americas
- Sparasion Latreille – Nearctic, Palearctic, Afrotropical and Oriental regions
References
[edit]- ^ Chen, Huayan; Lahey, Zachary; Talamas, Elijah J.; Valerio, Alejandro A.; Popovici, Ovidiu A.; Musetti, Luciana; Klompen, Hans; Polaszek, Andrew; Masner, Lubomír; Austin, Andrew D.; Johnson, Norman F. (2021). "An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification". Systematic Entomology. 46 (4): 1088–1113. doi:10.1111/syen.12511. ISSN 1365-3113. S2CID 237486714.