Sclerogibbidae

Sclerogibbidae; Temporal range: Barremian–Recent PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Superfamily:	Chrysidoidea
Family:	Sclerogibbidae ; Ashmead 1902
Genera
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Last updated January 02, 2026

The Sclerogibbidae are a small family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea.

Overview

Sclerogibbidae are ectoparasitoids of Embioptera. The female wasp oviposits an egg on the abdomen of a host. Once the larva emerges, it attaches itself to its host. After the host is consumed, the larva detaches itself from the carcass and spins a cocoon. While in all modern species, females are wingless (apterous), this is not true for fossil species.^[1]

The currently recognised taxa within the family Sclerogibbidae are:^[2]

subfamily †Sclerogibbodinae
- genus † Sclerogibbodes Engel & Grimaldi, 2006a Lebanese amber, Barremian
subfamily Sclerogibbinae
- genus Caenosclerogibba Yasumatsu, 1958
- genus Probethylus Ashmead, 1902
- genus † Pterosclerogibba Olmi, 2005 Dominican amber, Miocene
- genus Sclerogibba Riggio & De Stefani-Perez, 1888
† Burmasclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
† Chosia Fujiyama 1994 Choshi amber, Japan, Aptian
† Cretosclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
† Edrossia Perkovsky et al 2019 Burmese amber, Cenomanian
† Gallosclerogibba Perkovsky et al 2019 Charentese amber, France, Cenomanian

References

↑ Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Martynova, Kateryna V.; Mita, Toshiharu; Olmi, Massimo; Zheng, Yan; Müller, Patrick; Zhang, Qi; Gantier, Flavie; Perrichot, Vincent (November 2020). "A golden age for ectoparasitoids of Embiodea: Cretaceous Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from Kachin (Myanmar), Charentes (France) and Choshi (Japan) ambers" (PDF). Gondwana Research. 87: 1–22. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.004. S2CID 225012386.
↑ Kateryna V. Martynova, Massimo Olmi, Patrick Müller & Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2019): Description of the first sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from Burmese (Myanmar) amber and its phylogenetic significance, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Vol. 0, No. 0, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551250

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[1] Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Martynova, Kateryna V.; Mita, Toshiharu; Olmi, Massimo; Zheng, Yan; Müller, Patrick; Zhang, Qi; Gantier, Flavie; Perrichot, Vincent (November 2020). "A golden age for ectoparasitoids of Embiodea: Cretaceous Sclerogibbidae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) from Kachin (Myanmar), Charentes (France) and Choshi (Japan) ambers" (PDF). Gondwana Research. 87: 1–22. doi:10.1016/j.gr.2020.06.004. S2CID 225012386.

[2] Kateryna V. Martynova, Massimo Olmi, Patrick Müller & Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2019): Description of the first sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) from Burmese (Myanmar) amber and its phylogenetic significance, Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. Vol. 0, No. 0, 1–13, https://doi.org/10.1080/14772019.2018.1551250

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