Mymarommatoidea
Mymarommatoidea Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Infraorder: | Proctotrupomorpha |
Superfamily: | Mymarommatoidea Debauche, 1948 |
Families | |
†Alavarommatidae |
The Mymarommatoidea are a very small superfamily of microscopic
Classification
As taxonomists have examined this group more closely, they have become less certain about which other group of wasps represents the nearest living relatives of the Mymarommatoidea.[1] They are generally placed in the Proctotrupomorpha, amongst the group that includes all members of Proctotrupomorpha other than Cynipoidea.[3] Their closest relatives seem to be the extinct superfamily Serphitoidea (including Serphitidae and Archaeoserphitidae), with both groups being united in the clade Bipetiolarida.[4][5] There is no consensus on how the four families of Mymarommatoidea relate to each other.[5]
- †Alavarommatidae Ortega-Blanco, Peñalver, Delclòs, & Engel, 2011
- †Alavaromma Ortega-Blanco, Peñalver, Delclòs, & Engel, 2011
- (1 species) Spanish amber, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
- †Alavaromma Ortega-Blanco, Peñalver, Delclòs, & Engel, 2011
- †Dipterommatidae Rasnitsyn et al., 2019
- †Dipteromma Rasnitsyn et al., 2019
- (1 species) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Dipteromma Rasnitsyn et al., 2019
- †Gallorommatidae Gibson, Read, & Huber, 2007
- Six species, (Barremian-Cenomanian)
- †GallorommaSchlüter, 1978
- †Cretaceomma Rasnitsyn et al., 2022
- Mymarommatidae Debauche, 1948
- Five genera, Albian-Recent
- †Palaeomymar Meunier, 1901
- †Archaeromma Yoshimoto, 1975
- Mymaromma Girault, 1920
- Mymarommella Girault, 1931
- Zealaromma Gibson, Read, & Huber, 2007
Biology
There is only one confirmed host for any member of the superfamily; the species Mymaromma menehune from the Hawaiian Islands is a solitary endoparasitoid of eggs of a Lepidopsocus sp. (Psocodea: Lepidopsocidae) living on Ficus microcarpa trees.[6]
References
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ 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.
- S2CID 225772476.
- ISSN 2329-5880.
- ^ S2CID 201321947.
- ^ Honsberger DN, Huber JT, Wright MG (2022) A new Mymaromma sp. (Mymarommatoidea, Mymarommatidae) in Hawai‘i and first host record for the superfamily. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 89: 73-87. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.77931