Peleserphidae

Peleserphidae Temporal range: Callovian–Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil and drawing of Arkadiserphus
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Proctotrupoidea
Family:	†Peleserphidae Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2018
Genera
†Arkadiserphus 166-157 million years ago †Peleserphus 99 million years ago †Peleproctus 100-93 million years ago

Peleserphidae is an extinct family of wasps belonging to the superfamily Proctotrupoidea. It is currently known from four species in three genera. One (Arkadiserphus) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and the others (Peleserphus and Peleproctus) from mid Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar.^[1][2] They are suggested to have targeted hosts hidden in substrates like wood, such as insect larvae.^[1]

References

1. Zhang, Qi; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Haichun (June 2018). "Peleserphidae, a new family of basal proctotrupomorphs (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupoidea) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 86: 66–72. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.015. S2CID 133717481.
2. Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. (2021-08-24). "First Jurassic representative of the extinct family Peleserphidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea)". Journal of Hymenoptera Research. 84: 295–300. doi:10.3897/jhr.84.65493. ISSN 1314-2607. S2CID 237629838.