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. It was originally erected as the tribe Geoscelionini within Scelionidae. It was raised to a full family in 2021.
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, 2007Masner, L., Johnson, N. F., & Polaszek, A. D. (2007). Redescription of Archaeoscelio Brues and description of three new genera of Scelionidae (Hymenoptera): a challenge to the definition of the family. American Museum Novitates, 2007(3550), 1-24. (1 species) sub-Saharan Africa
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