Proterosceliopsis Temporal range:
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Proterosceliopsis ambulata in multiple views | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
Family: | †
Proterosceliopsidae Talamas et al, 2019 |
Genus: | †
Proterosceliopsis Ortega-Blanco, McKellar and Engel, 2014 |
Type species | |
†Proterosceliopsis masneri Ortega-Blanco, McKellar and Engel, 2014
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Proterosceliopsis is an extinct genus of platygastroid parasitic wasp, known from the Mid-Cretaceous of Eurasia. The genus was first described in 2014 from the Albian amber of the Escucha Formation. [1] In 2019 additional species were described from the Cenomanian-age Burmese amber, and was placed into the monotypic family Proterosceliopsidae. [2]
In the initial 2014 description, the genus was placed in the Scelionidae. [1] However, traditional Scelionidae was found to be polyphyletic in a 2007 study, [3] which recovered a "main scelionid clade" as monophyletic. In the 2019 study describing the Burmese amber species, it was found to exhibit a unique combination of characters placing it outside both the modified Scelionidae and Platygastridae, thus causing it to be placed in a new family within Platygastroidea. [2]