Sclerogibbidae

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: Chrysidoidea

Familia: Sclerogibbidae
Subfamiliae: Caenosclerogibbinae - Probethylinae - Sclerogibbinae
Name
References

Argaman, Q. 1988: Generic synopsis of Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera). Annales Historico-Naturales Musei Nationalis Hungarici, 80: 177–187.
Olmi, M. 2005: A revision of the world Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea). Frustula entomologica (n.s.), XXVI-XXVII(XXXIX-XL): 46–193.
Yasumatsu, K. 1958: A new addition to the genera of the Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera). Kontyû, 26: 20–24.

The Sclerogibbidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.
Overview

Sclerogibbidae are ectoparasitoids of Embioptera. The female wasp oviposits an egg on the abdomen of a host. Once the larva emerges, it attaches itself to its host. After the host is consumed, the larva detaches itself from the carcass and spins a cocoon. While in all modern species, females are wingless (apterous), this is not true for fossil species.[1]

The currently recognised taxa within the family Sclerogibbidae are:[2]

subfamily †Sclerogibbodinae
genus †Sclerogibbodes Engel & Grimaldi, 2006a Lebanese amber, Barremian
subfamily Sclerogibbinae
genus Caenosclerogibba Yasumatsu, 1958
genus Probethylus Ashmead, 1902
genus †Pterosclerogibba Olmi, 2005 Dominican amber, Miocene
genus Sclerogibba Riggio & De Stefani-Perez, 1888
†Burmasclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
†Chosia Fujiyama 1994 Choshi amber, Japan, Aptian
†Cretosclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
†Edrossia Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
†Gallosclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Charentese amber, France, Cenomanian

References

Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Martynova, Kateryna V.; Mita, Toshiharu; Olmi, Massimo; Zheng, Yan; Müller, Patrick; Zhang, Qi; Gantier, Flavie; Perrichot, Vincent (November 2020). "A golden age for ectoparasitoids of Embiodea: Cretaceous Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from Kachin (Myanmar), Charentes (France) and Choshi (Japan) ambers". Gondwana Research. 87: 1–22. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.004.
Kateryna V. Martynova, Massimo Olmi, Patrick Müller & Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2019): Description of the first sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from Burmese (Myanmar) amber and its phylogenetic significance, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Vol. 0, No. 0, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551250