Serphitidae
Serphitidae | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Suborder: | Apocrita |
Family: | Serphitidae |
Subfamilies | |
see below |
Serphitidae is a family of fossil hymenopteran insects.
Taxonomy
This family was described in 1937 by the American entomologist Charles Thomas Brues to classify a fossil insect caught in an amber piece from Canada. The species was named Serphites paradoxus. After that, more genera were described and included in this family, like Archaeromma and Distylopus by the Japanese entomologist Hiroshi Yoshimoto in 1975, from fossils also found in Canadian amber, and Aposerphites, Microserphites, Palaeomymar and new species of Serphites in 1979 by the Russian entomologist Mikhail Vasilievich Kozlov and Alexandr Rasnitsyn, from Siberian amber .[2]
References
- ↑ David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2005). Cambridge University Press, ed. "Evolution of the Insects".
- ↑ George O. Poinar (1992). Stanford University Press, ed. "Life in amber": 350. ISBN 0804720010. Retrieved 13 August 2010.
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