Neuroscelionidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily
Platygastroidea
The Hymenopteran superfamily of parasitoid wasps, Platygastroidea, has often been treated as a lineage within the superfamily Proctotrupoidea, but most classifications since 1977 have recognized it as an independent group within the Proctotrupo ...
. It contains only one extant genus, ''
Neuroscelio'', with two other genera known from fossils.
Members of ''Neuroscelio'' are known from Southeast Asia and Australia.
Their hosts are unknown.
Taxonomy
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Brachyscelio
''Brachyscelio'' is an extinct genus of wasps belonging to the family Neuroscelionidae, fossils have been found in Baltic and Rovno amber
Rivne amber, occasionally called Ukrainian amber, is amber found in the Rivne Oblast and surrounding reg ...
''
Brues, 1940,
Baltic amber
The Baltic region is home to the largest known deposit of amber, called Baltic amber or succinite. It was produced sometime during the Eocene epoch, but exactly when is controversial. It has been estimated that these forests created more than 1 ...
,
Rovno amber
Rivne amber, occasionally called Ukrainian amber, is amber found in the Rivne Oblast and surrounding regions of Ukraine and Belarus. The amber is dated between Late Eocene and Early Miocene, and suggested to be contemporaneous to Baltic amber. ...
,
Eocene
The Eocene ( ) Epoch is a geological epoch (geology), epoch that lasted from about 56 to 33.9 million years ago (mya). It is the second epoch of the Paleogene Period (geology), Period in the modern Cenozoic Era (geology), Era. The name ''Eocene' ...
* †''
Cenomanoscelio''
Schlüter, 1978,
Bezonnais amber, France, Late Cretaceous (
Cenomanian
The Cenomanian is, in the ICS' geological timescale, the oldest or earliest age of the Late Cretaceous Epoch or the lowest stage of the Upper Cretaceous Series. An age is a unit of geochronology; it is a unit of time; the stage is a unit in the s ...
)
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Neuroscelio''
Dodd, 1913
References
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Platygastroidea