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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 |
| Families | |
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 Scelionidae was briefly considered to be a subfamily of the Platygastridae, [2] [3] though subsequent analyses have reversed this decision. Chen et al (2021) recognizes eight families, including five new extant families ( Geoscelionidae, Janzenellidae, Neuroscelionidae, Nixoniidae, and Sparasionidae) and one extinct 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.
- ^ a b 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.
- ^ Johnson, Norman F.; Musetti, Luciana; Masner, Lubomír (2008). "The Cretaceous Scelionid Genus Proteroscelio Brues (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea)". American Museum Novitates (3603): 1. doi: 10.1206/0003-0082(2008)3603[1:tcsgpb]2.0.co;2. ISSN 0003-0082. S2CID 67766290.