Geoscelionidae

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]

Geoscelionidae Temporal range: Cenomanian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom)
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Platygastroidea
Family:	Geoscelionidae Engel & Huang, 2017
Genera
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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