Rotoitidae

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: Chalcidoidea

Familia: Rotoitidae
Genera (2): Chiloe – Rotoita
Source(s) of checklist:
Checklist based uncritically on UCD
Name

Rotoitidae Boucek & Noyes, 1987. Type genus: Rotoita Boucek & Noyes, 1987
Primary references

Bouček, Z.B.; Noyes, J.S. 1987: Rotoitidae, a curious new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from New Zealand. Systematic entomology 12(4): 407–412. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.1987.tb00212.x Reference page.

References

Gibson, G.A.P.; Huber, J.T. 2000: Review of the family Rotoitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea), with description of a new genus and species from Chile. Journal of natural history, 34(12): 2293–2314. DOI: 10.1080/002229300750037901 Reference page.

The Rotoitidae are a very small family of rare, relictual parasitic wasps in the superfamily Chalcidoidea, known primarily from fossils (14 extinct species in two genera, Baeomorpha and Taimyromorpha).[1] Only two extant species are known, each in its own genus, one from New Zealand and one from Chile, and little is known about their biology. Females of the Chilean species, Chiloe micropteron, have their wings reduced to tiny bristles. Most fossil species are known from the Late Cretaceous (Santonian) Taimyr amber of Russia and Late Cretaceous (Campanian) Canadian amber,[2] but one species, Baeomorpha liorum is known from the mid Creaceous (late Albian-earliest Cenomanian) Burmese amber.[1]

Rotoitids are very close to the base of the chalcidoid family tree, presently considered to be the first "branch" taxon after the Mymaridae.[1]
References

Huber JT, Shih C, Dong R (2019) A new species of Baeomorpha (Hymenoptera, Rotoitidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 72: 1-10. https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.72.35502
Gumovsky, Alex; Perkovsky, Evgeny; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr (April 2018). "Laurasian ancestors and "Gondwanan" descendants of Rotoitidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea): What a review of Late Cretaceous Baeomorpha revealed". Cretaceous Research. 84: 286–322. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.027. ISSN 0195-6671.