Gallorommatidae

Gallorommatidae Temporal range: Barremian–Cenomanian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Infraorder:	Proctotrupomorpha
Superfamily:	Mymarommatoidea Gibson et al., 2007
Family:	† Gallorommatidae Schlüter, 1978
Genera
†Galloromma †Cretaceomma

The Gallorommatidae is an extinct family of microscopic parasitoid wasps, belonging to the Mymarommatoidea. It is known from several species found in Cretaceous aged amber. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

• †Galloromma
  • † Galloromma agapa ^[3] from Taimyr amber, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
  • † Galloromma alavaensis ^[4] from the Escucha Formation, Early Cretaceous (Albian)
  • † Galloromma bezonnaisensis ^[5] from Bezonnais amber, France, Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian)
  • † Galloromma kachinensis ^[2] from Burmese amber, mid Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian)
• †Cretaceomma ^[6]
  • †Cretaceomma libanensis from Lebanese amber, Early Cretaceous (Barremian)
  • †Cretaceomma turolensis also from the Eschucha Formation.

References

1. Gibson, G.A.P.; Read, J.; Huber, J.T. (2007) Diversity, classification and higher relationships of Mymarommatoidea (Hymenoptera). Journal of Hymenoptera Research 16: 51–146.
2. Engel, M.S.; Grimaldi, D.A. (2007) New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 110: 159–168.
3. M. A. Kozlov and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1979. Ob ob'yeme semeystva Serphitidae (Hymenoptera, Proctotrupoidea). Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie57:402-416
4. Ortega-Blanco, Jaime; Peñalver, Enrique; Delclòs, Xavier; Engel, Michael S. (May 2011). "False fairy wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea): MYMAROMMATOIDS IN SPANISH CRETACEOUS AMBER". Palaeontology. 54 (3): 511–523. doi: 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01049.x .
5. Schluter, T. (1978). "Zur Systematik und Palokologie harzkonservierter Arthropoda einer Taphozonose aus dem Cenomanium von NW Frankreich. Berlin". Geowiss. Abhandl. A. 9: 1–150.
6. Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Maalouf, Mounir; Maalouf, Ramy; Azar, Dany (2022-04-22). "New Serphitidae and Gallorommatidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Microprocta) in the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber" . Palaeoentomology. 5 (2). doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.2.4. ISSN   2624-2834.