Family Cynipidae Latreille 1802 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cynipidae

Alternative spelling: Cynipsera

Full reference: P. A. Latreille. 1802. Histoire Naturelle, Générale et Particulière des Crustacés et des Insectes. 3:1-467

Parent taxon: Cynipoidea according to J. Hearn et al. 2024

See also Archibald et al. 2018, Carpenter 1992, Kovalev 1994, Liu and Engel 2007, Pujade-Villar and Peñalver 2019, Ronquist 1999, Sharkey 2007 and Statz 1938

Sister taxa: Archaeocynipidae, Diplolepididae, Figitidae, Gerocynipidae, Ibaliidae, Liopteridae, Protimaspidae, Stolamissidae

Subtaxa: Cynipinae Cynips succinea Hodiernocynipinae Rhodites Tanaoknemus

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Type: Cynips

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Germany (1 collection)

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Colorado)

• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Manitoba)

Total: 8 collections including 11 occurrences

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