| Geoscelionidae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N | |
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| Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom) | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
| Family: | Geoscelionidae Engel & Huang, 2017 |
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Geoscelionidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily Platygastroidea. It contains three extant species in two genera, native to South America and Africa, and several other genera known from fossils. It was originally erected as the tribe Geoscelionini within Scelionidae. It was raised to a full family in 2021.
Taxonomy
- †Geoscelio Engel and Huang, 2016 (1 species) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
- †Archaeoscelio Brues, 1940 (2 species) Baltic amber, Eocene
- †Cobaloscelio Johnson and Masner 2007 (2 species) Baltic amber, Eocene
- Plaumannion Masner & Johnson (2 species) southeastern Brazil and Venezuela
- Huddlestonium Polaszek & Johnson (1 species) sub-Saharan Africa
References
- ^ 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.
- Engel, Michael S.; Huang, Diying; Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.; Cai, Chenyang; Alvarado, Mabel; Breitkreuz, Laura C.V.; Azar, Dany (January 2017). "An apterous scelionid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)". Comptes Rendus Palevol. 16 (1): 5–11. doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2016.03.005. ISSN 1631-0683.