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Diaprioidea

Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	Not linked to a GBIF record.
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	256311	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=256311

Rank

superfamily (PBDB)

Taxonomy (PBDB)

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Diaprioidea	superfamily	belongs to Proctotrupomorpha	stated with evidence	Heraty et al., 2011

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

23 (35%)

First Recorded Appearance

145 - 140 Ma
Early/Lower Cretaceous

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

M. J. Sharkey. 2007. Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera. Zootaxa 1668:521-548

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Ismaridae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	2	122 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	0 Ma Extant
Monomachidae family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	1	56.0 Ma Paleocene	0 Ma Extant
Spathiopterygidae ✝ family	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)	5	130 Ma Early/Lower Cretaceous	93.9 Ma Late/Upper Cretaceous
Diapriinae subfamily	listed (PBDB)	39	145 Ma Late Jurassic	0 Ma Extant

Sharkey M. J. (2007) Phylogeny and classification of Hymenoptera, Zootaxa 1668, 521-548

Heraty J., Ronquist F., et al (2011) Evolution of the hymenopteran megaradiation, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 60, 73-88

Sharkey M. J., Carpenter J. M., et al (2012) Phylogenetic relationships among superfamilies of Hymenoptera, Cladistics 28, 80-112

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!