Proterosceliopsis
Extinct genus of insects
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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]
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| 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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Taxonomy
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]
Species
- Proterosceliopsis ambulata Talamas et al. 2019 Burmese amber
- Proterosceliopsis masneri Ortega-Blanco et al. 2014 Spanish amber
- Proterosceliopsis nigon Talamas et al. 2019 Burmese amber
- Proterosceliopsis plurima Talamas et al. 2019 Burmese amber
- Proterosceliopsis torquata Talamas et al. 2019 Burmese amber
- Proterosceliopsis wingerathi Talamas et al. 2019 Burmese amber
Proterosceliopsis plurima
Proterosceliopsis plurima
Proterosceliopsis plurima
Proterosceliopsis torquata
Proterosceliopsis torquata
Proterosceliopsis wingerathi
Proterosceliopsis nigon
Proterosceliopsis nigon
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