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The Sclerogibbidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Chrysidoidea |
| Family: | Sclerogibbidae Ashmead 1902 |
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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
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