Janzenella Temporal range:
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Infraorder: | Proctotrupomorpha |
Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
Family: |
Janzenellidae Johnson & Austin, 2021 |
Genus: |
Janzenella Masner & Johnson, 2007 |
Type species | |
Janzenella innupta Masner & Johnson, 2007
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Other species | |
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Janzenella is a genus of wasp, the only member of the family Janzenellidae within the superfamily Platygastroidea. It contains only a single living species, Janzenella innupta, which has only been collected in Costa Rica. Fossil members of the living species have also been described from Miocene aged Dominican amber. [1] [2] A Late Eocene fossil species, Janzenella theia is known from specimens entombed in Baltic amber. [3]