†family Sirenobethylidae Wu et al. 2025 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sirenobethylidae

Full reference: Q. Wu, L. Vilhelmsen, and T. Gao. 2025. Taxonomic names, in A Cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp. BMC Biology 23(81)

Parent taxon: Chrysidoidea according to Q. Wu et al. 2025

Sister taxa: Bethylidae, Chrysididae, Chrysobythidae, Chrysopsenellidae, Dryinidae, Embolemidae, Plumalexiidae, Plumariidae, Radiophronidae, Sclerogibbidae, Scolebythidae

Subtaxa: Sirenobethylus

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Type: Sirenobethylus

Ecology:

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

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