Mymarommatoidea

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Hymenopterida
Ordo: Hymenoptera
Subordo: Apocrita
Superfamilia: Mymarommatoidea
Familiae (1 + 1†): Mymarommatidae - †Gallorommatidae
[source: UCD (accessed 2011-05-19)]
Name

Mymarommatoidea Debauche, 1948
References

Template:Debauche, 1948

Dale-Skey, N., Askew, R.R., Noyes, J.S., Livermore, L. & Broad, G.R. 2016. Checklist of British and Irish Hymenoptera - Chalcidoidea and Mymarommatoidea. Biodiversity Data Journal 4: e8013. DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.4.e8013. Reference page.
Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. 2007: New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 110: 159–168.
Gibson, G.A.P., Read, J. & Huber, J.T. 2007. Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera research 16(1): 51–146. BHL Reference page.

The Mymarommatoidea are a very small superfamily of microscopic fairyfly-like parasitic wasps. It contains only a single living family, Mymarommatidae, and three other extinct families known from Cretaceous aged amber. Less than half of all described species are living taxa (the others are fossils), but they are known from all parts of the world.[1][2] Undoubtedly, many more await discovery, as they are easily overlooked and difficult to study due to their extremely small size (most have an overall length of around 0.3 mm).
Classification

As taxonomists have examined this group more closely, they have become less certain about which other group of wasps represents the nearest living relatives of the Mymarommatoidea.[1] They are generally placed in the Proctotrupomorpha, amongst the group that includes all members of Proctotrupomorpha other than Cynipoidea.[3] Their closest relatives seem to be the extinct superfamily Serphitoidea (including Serphitidae and Archaeoserphitidae), with both groups being united in the clade Bipetiolarida.[4][5] There is no consensus on how the four families of Mymarommatoidea relate to each other.[5]

†Alavarommatidae Ortega-Blanco et al., 2011
†Alavaromma Ortega-Blanco Penalver Delclòs & Engel 2011 (1 species) Spanish amber, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
†Dipterommatidae Rasnitsyn et al. 2019
†Dipteromma Rasnitsyn et al. 2019 (1 species) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
†Gallorommatidae Gibson et al. 2007
†Galloromma Schlüter (1978) (5 species) Spanish amber, Early Cretaceous (Albian) Taimyr Amber, Russia, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian) Bezonnais amber, France, Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
Mymarommatidae Debauche, 1948
5 Genera, Albian-Recent

Biology

There is only one confirmed host for any member of the superfamily; the species Mymaromma menehune from the Hawaiian Islands is a solitary endoparasitoid of eggs of a Lepidopsocus sp. (Psocodea: Lepidopsocidae) living on Ficus microcarpa trees.[6]
References

Gibson, G.A.P.; Read, J.; Huber, J.T. (2007) Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 51–146.
Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110: 159–168.
Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Öhm-Kühnle, Christoph (2020-06-30). "Taxonomic revision of the infraorder Proctotrupomorpha (Hymenoptera)". Palaeoentomology. 3 (3): 223–234–223–234. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.3.3.2. ISSN 2624-2834.
Engel, Michael S. (2015-12-30). "A new family of primitive serphitoid wasps in Lebanese amber (Hymenoptera: Serphitoidea)". Novitates Paleoentomologicae (13): 1. doi:10.17161/np.v0i13.5064. ISSN 2329-5880.
Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Sidorchuk, Ekaterina A.; Zhang, Haichun; Zhang, Qi (December 2019). "Dipterommatidae, a new family of parasitic wasps (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: The first case of morphological diptery in flying Hymenoptera". Cretaceous Research. 104: 104193. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104193.
Honsberger DN, Huber JT, Wright MG (2022) A new Mymaromma sp. (Mymarommatoidea, Mymarommatidae) in Hawai‘i and first host record for the superfamily. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 89: 73-87. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.89.77931