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Gasteruptiidae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Gasteruptiidae

Taxonomy

Gasteruptioninae was named by Ashmead (1900). It is extant.

It was reranked as the family Gasteruptiidae by Rasnitsyn and Ansorge (2000), Sharkey (2007), Rasnitsyn (2013), Engel (2017), Li et al. (2018), Jouault et al. (2021).

It was assigned to Evaniidae by Ashmead (1900); to Hymenoptera by Rasnitsyn and Ansorge (2000); to Evanioidea by Sharkey (2007), Rasnitsyn (2013), Li et al. (2018); and to Euaulacides by Engel (2017), Jouault et al. (2021).

Subtaxa

Aulacinae, Baissinae, Hypselogastriinae, Kotujellitinae, Tichostephanus

Synonymy list

Year	Name and author
1900	Gasteruptioninae Ashmead p. 7
2000	Gasteruptiidae Rasnitsyn and Ansorge p. 336
2007	Gasteruptiidae Sharkey
2013	Gasteruptiidae Rasnitsyn p. 99
2017	Gasteruptiidae Engel p. 5
2018	Gasteruptiidae Li et al.
2021	Gasteruptiidae Jouault et al.

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Rank	Name	Author
kingdom	Animalia	()
—	Bilateria
—	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
—	Protostomia
—	Ecdysozoa	Aguinaldo et al. 1997
—	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Gravenhorst 1843
—	Deuteropoda
—	Mandibulata
—	Pancrustacea	Zrzavý and Štys 1997
—	Altocrustacea	Regier et al. 2010
superclass	Allotriocarida
—	Athalassocarida
—	Labiocarida	Schwentner et al. 2017
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
—	Cercofilata
class	Insecta

Rank	Name	Author
—	Dicondylia
—	Paranotalia
subclass	Pterygota	()
—	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
—	Holometabola
—	Hymenopterida
order	Hymenoptera
—	Unicalcarida
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
superfamily	Evanioidea
—	Neoevanioides
—	Aulaciformes
—	Euaulacides
family	Gasteruptiidae	()
family	Gasteruptiidae	()

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

Fm. Gasteruptiidae Ashmead 1900

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Subfm. †Hypselogastriinae Engel 2016

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G. †Hypselogastrion Engel 2016

†Hypselogastrion simplex Engel and Wang 2016

Subfm. †Kotujellitinae Rasnitsyn 1975

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G. †Kotujellites Rasnitsyn 1990

†Kotujellites crucis Rasnitsyn 1975

Invalid names: Kotujella Rasnitsyn 1975 [replaced]

G. †Kotujisca Rasnitsyn 1991

†Kotujisca kholbotensis Rasnitsyn 1991

G. †Tichostephanus Engel 2019

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†Tichostephanus hui Engel 2019

†Tichostephanus kachinensis Wang et al. 2024

†Tichostephanus longus Wang et al. 2024

Invalid names: Aulacinae Shuckard 1841 [empty], Baissinae Rasnitsyn 1975 [empty]

Diagnosis

No diagnoses are available

Measurements

No measurements are available

Composition:

chitinc

Environment:

terrestrialc

Locomotion:

actively mobilep

Created:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Modified:

2017-04-17 09:56:18

Source: c = class, p = phylum

References: Bush and Bambach 2015, Kiessling 2004

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Hauterivian to the top of the Cenomanian or 132.60000 to 93.90000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 121.4 Ma

Collections (5 total)

Time interval	Ma	Country or state	Original ID and collection number
Hauterivian - Barremian	132.6 - 121.4	Mongolia (Ovorkhangai)	Kotujisca kholbotensis (113357)
Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Russian Federation (Taymyr)	Kotujella crucis (114324)
Early/Lower Cenomanian	100.5 - 93.9	Myanmar	Hypselogastrion simplex, Tichostephanus hui (161726) Tichostephanus kachinensis (229432) Tichostephanus longus (165561)