Karatavitidae

Karatavitidae
Temporal range: Pliensbachian–Oxfordian
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Superfamily: †Karatavitoidea
Family: †Karatavitidae
Rasnitsyn, 1963

Karatavitidae is an extinct family of sawflies, known from the Jurassic period, they are the only members of the superfamily Karatavitoidea. While once proposed to be grouped with the Orussoidea in the infraorder Orussomorpha, they are now considered to be the closest relatives of clade containing Orussoidea and Apocrita.[1] There are about 7 genera in Karatavitidae.[2][3][4][5]

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