Family Platygastridae Haliday 1833
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Platygastridae
Alternative spelling: Platygasterinae
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
Sister taxa: Caradiophyodidae, Geoscelionidae, Laelius nudipennis, Neuroscelionidae, Proterosceliopsidae, Sparasionidae
Subtaxa: none
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Tanzania (2 collections)
• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (1)
• Eocene of Denmark (1), the Russian Federation (3), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Montana)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Myanmar (3)
Total: 13 collections including 22 occurrences