Peleserphidae
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Proctotrupoidea |
| Family: | †Peleserphidae Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2018 |
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Peleserphidae is an extinct family of wasps belonging to the superfamily Proctotrupoidea. It is currently known from four species in three genera. One (Arkadiserphus) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and the others (Peleserphus and Peleproctus) from mid Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar.[1][2]
References
- ^ Zhang, Qi; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Haichun (June 2018). "Peleserphidae, a new family of basal proctotrupomorphs (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 86: 66–72. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.015. S2CID 133717481.
- ^ Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. (2021-08-24). "First Jurassic representative of the extinct family Peleserphidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 84: 295–300. doi:10.3897/jhr.84.65493. ISSN 1314-2607. S2CID 237629838.