Platygastroidea
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| A platygastrid wasp (Leptacis sp.) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Infraorder: | Proctotrupomorpha |
| Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
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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 within the Proctotrupomorpha. It is presently has some 4000 described species.[1] They are exclusively parasitic in nature.
The family
Proterosceliopsidae, known from fossils found in Cretaceous amber.[4] Members of the group are known from the Early Cretaceous to present.[5] The ancestral hosts of the group are orthopterans, with various lineages switching hosts to other insects.[4]
References
- ^ 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
- ^ Aguiar et al. 2013
- ^ Sharkey, M.J. (2007). "Phylogeny and Classification of Hymenoptera". Zootaxa. 309: 13–48.
- ^ ISSN 1365-3113.
- S2CID 67766290.