The aculeate wasp family Sierolomorphidae (Hymenoptera) in the Early Cretaceous
Sergio Álvarez-Parra,
Michael S Engel,
Enrique Peñalver
et al.
Abstract:The aculeate wasp family Sierolomorphidae is a small and enigmatic group including 14 species in 2 extant genera distributed in the Northern Hemisphere. Nothing is known about their biology, although ectoparasitoidism on insects has been speculated. Only 1 fossil genus from Turonian (Upper Cretaceous) amber was tentatively assigned to this family. The family Sierolomorphidae is recorded from the Early Cretaceous for the first time, representing the earliest occurrence of the family. Orisolemorpha dyscheres Álv… Show more
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