Insecta - Hymenoptera - Platygastridae
Alternative spellings: Platygasterinae, Platygastres
Full reference: A. H. Haliday. 1833. An essay on the classification of the parasitic Hymenoptera of Britain, which correspond with the Ichneumones minuti of Linnaeus. The Entomological Magazine 1:259-276
Parent taxon: Platygastroidea according to H. Y. Chen et al. 2021
See also Ashmead 1893, Ashmead 1894, Poinar 2012, Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle 2020, Sharkey 2007, Statz 1938, Talamas and Buffington 2015 and Talamas et al. 2019
Sister taxa: Caradiophyodidae, Geoscelionidae, Laelius nudipennis, Neuroscelionidae, Proterosceliopsidae, Sparasionidae
Subtaxa: Acerotella Aphelinus minutus Inostemmini Platygastrinae Prototeleia Sceliotrachelinae
Type: Platygaster
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (2 collections)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (4), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of Canada (1: Saskatchewan), France (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 14 collections including 23 occurrences