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Eulophidae

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Eulophidae

Taxonomy
Eulophi was named by Haliday (1833). It is extant.

It was reranked as the subfamily Eulophinae by Statz (1938); it was corrected as Eulophidae by Carpenter (1992), Sharkey (2007) and Heraty et al. (2013).

It was assigned to Chalcididae by Statz (1938); to Apocrita by Carpenter (1992); and to Chalcidoidea by Sharkey (2007) and Heraty et al. (2013).

Synonyms
Synonymy list
YearName and author
1938Eulophinae Statz p. 100
1992Eulophidae Carpenter
2002Paraeulophites Hong p. 509
2002Paraeulophites nodulus Hong p. 509 figs. Pl 40, fig 1; text-fig 246-255
2002Trigonopterites Hong p. 512
2002Trigonopterites eocenicus Hong p. 512 figs. 2.8.256-267
2007Eulophidae Sharkey
2013Eulophidae Heraty et al.

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
Bilateria
EubilateriaAx 1987
Protostomia
Ecdysozoa
Panarthropoda
phylumArthropodaLatreille 1829
superclassHexapodaLatreille 1825
classInsecta
Dicondylia
Paranotalia
subclassPterygota()
RankNameAuthor
NeopterygotaCrampton 1924
infraclassNeopteraMartynov 1923
Holometabola
Hymenopterida
orderHymenoptera
Unicalcarida
suborderApocritaGerstaecker 1867
infraorderProctotrupomorpha
Microprocta
superfamilyChalcidoidea
familyEulophidae()
familyEulophidae()

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. Eulophidae Haliday 1833
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Subfm. Entedoninae Förster 1856
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G. Achrysocharoides Girault 1913
G. Chrysonotomyia Ashmead 1904
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Chrysonotomyia dominicana Gumovsky 2001
Subfm. Eulophinae Haliday 1833
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G. Eulophus Geoffroy 1762
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Eulophus elegantulus Statz 1938
Eulophus mundus Statz 1938
Subfm. Tetrastichinae Förster 1856
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G. †Kressleinius Domer and Burks 2020
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Kressleinius celans Domer and Burks 2020
Invalid names: Paraeulophites Hong 2002 [nomen nudum], Trigonopterites Hong 2002 [nomen nudum]
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: Kiessling 2004, Bush and Bambach 2015

Age range

Maximum range based only on fossils: base of the Ypresian to the top of the Early/Lower Miocene or 56.00000 to 15.97000 Ma
Minimum age of oldest fossil (stem group age): 47.8 Ma

Collections (6 total)


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Ypresian56.0 - 47.8China (Liaoning) Paraeulophites nodulus (124530) Trigonopterites eocenicus (124820)
Priabonian38.0 - 33.9Russian Federation (Kaliningrad) Kressleinius celans (120814)
Chattian28.1 - 23.03Germany (North Rhine-Westphalia) Eulophus elegantulus, Eulophus mundus (122010)
Early/Lower Miocene23.03 - 15.97Ethiopia Eulophidae indet. (151982)
Burdigalian - Langhian20.44 - 13.82Dominican Republic Chrysonotomyia dominicana, Achrysocharoides sp. (123422)