Geoscelionidae
Family of wasps
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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.[1] It was originally erected as the tribe Geoscelionini within Scelionidae.[2] It was raised to a full family in 2021.[1]
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| Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom) | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Platygastroidea |
| Family: | Geoscelionidae Engel & Huang, 2017 |
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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