†family Caradiophyodidae Poinar and Vega 2023 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Caradiophyodidae

Full reference: G. Poinar and F. E. Vega. 2023. Caradiophyodidae, a new family of micro-wasps (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea) based on the description of Caradiophyodus saradae gen. et sp. nov. in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Life 13(1698)

Parent taxon: Platygastroidea according to G. Poinar and F. E. Vega 2023

Sister taxa: Geoscelionidae, Laelius nudipennis, Neuroscelionidae, Platygastridae, Proterosceliopsidae, Sparasionidae

Subtaxa: Caradiophyodus

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Type: Caradiophyodus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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