Pelecinidae

Pelecinidae Temporal range: Callovian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Pelecinus polyturator
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Proctotrupoidea
Family:	Pelecinidae Haliday 1840
Genera
See text

Pelecinidae is a family of parasitic wasps in the Proctotrupoidea. It contains only one living genus, Pelecinus, with three species known from the Americas. The earliest fossil species are known from the Jurassic, and the group was highly diverse during the Cretaceous.^[1] Members of Pelecinus are parasitic on larval beetles, flies, green lacewings, and sawflies.^[2]

Taxonomy[]

• † Feng et al. 2010^[3] Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
• † Guo et al. 2016^[4] Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
• † Engel and Grimaldi 2006^[5] Engel and Grimaldi 2006 New Jersey amber, Late Cretaceous (Turonian)
• † Brues 1933 Baltic amber, Eocene
• † Greenwalt and Engel 2014 Kishenehn Formation, Montana, Eocene (Lutetian)
• † Liu et al. 2009 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Guo et al. 2016 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Engel and Grimaldi 2013 Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
• † Zhang and Rasnitsyn 2006 , China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Shih et al. 2009 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
• † Feng et al. 2010 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Shih et al. 2009 Daohugou, China, Middle Jurassic (Callovian)
• † Zhang et al. 2002 Tsagaantsav Formation, Mongolia, Early Cretaceous (Valanginian) Laiyang Formation, Yixian Formation, Jiufotang Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian), Zaza Formation, Russia Early Cretaceous (Aptian), Burmese amber, Myanmar, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)^[1]
• † Kozlov 1974 Zaza Formation, Russia Early Cretaceous (Aptian) , Russia, Late Cretaceous (Campanian)
• † Shih et al. 2010 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Rasnitsyn 2008, Shar Teeg, Mongolia, Late Jurassic (Tithonian)
• † Zhang et al. 2002 Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) Zaza Formation, Russia Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Zhang et al. 2002 Laiyang Formation, Yixian Formation, China, Early Cretaceous (Aptian)
• † Zhang and Rasnitsyn 2004 , Mongolia Early Cretaceous (Aptian), Zaza Formation, Russia Early Cretaceous (Aptian)

References[]