Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae
Synonym: Fushunochrysidae Hong 2002
Parent taxon: Chrysidoidea according to M. Brazidec and V. Perrichot 2022
See also Antropov 2014, Azevedo et al. 2018, Brothers 1999, Carpenter 1992, Cockx et al. 2016, Engel et al. 2016, Hong 2002, McKellar and Engel 2014 and Sharkey 2007
Sister taxa: Chrysididae, Chrysobythidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Plumalexiidae, Plumariidae, Radiophronidae, Sclerogibbidae, Scolebythidae
Subtaxa: Bethylinae Cretabythinae Elektroepyrinae Epyrinae Epyrinae Lancepyrinae Mesitiinae Nadezhdabythus Pristocerinae Protopristocerinae Scleroderminae
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Madagascar (1 collection), Tanzania (3)
• Miocene of China (1), the Dominican Republic (5), Mexico (1)
• Oligocene of Germany (1)
• Eocene of China (2), Denmark (1), France (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (10), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (3: Colorado)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Alberta), France (1), Hungary (1), Jordan (1), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (9), the Russian Federation (3), Spain (2)
Total: 53 collections including 139 occurrences