Radiophronidae

Radiophronidae
Temporal range: Albian
Drawings of Radiophron
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Chrysidoidea
Family: Radiophronidae
Ortega-Blanco et al., 2010
Genera

Radiophronidae is an extinct family of wasps known from two genera found in Cretaceous (Albian) aged amber from Spain. While originally classified in Ceraphronoidea, they were later considered to probably be members of Chrysidoidea.[1][2]

  1. ^ Ortega-Blanco, Jaime; Rasnitsyn, Alexander P.; Delclòs, Xavier (June 2010). "A New Family of Ceraphronoid Wasps from Early Cretaceous Álava Amber, Spain". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 55 (2): 265–276. doi:10.4202/app.2009.0014. ISSN 0567-7920.
  2. ^ Mikó, István; Kamp, Thomas van de; Trietsch, Carolyn; Ulmer, Jonah M.; Zuber, Marcus; Baumbach, Tilo; Deans, Andrew R. (2018-08-08). "A new megaspilid wasp from Eocene Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), with notes on two non-ceraphronoid families: Radiophronidae and Stigmaphronidae". PeerJ. 6: e5174. doi:10.7717/peerj.5174. ISSN 2167-8359. PMC 6103384.