Gallorommatidae Explained

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 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.

Notes and 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 Obozrenie 57:402-416
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. en. 54. 3. 511–523. 10.1111/j.1475-4983.2011.01049.x. free.
5. Schluter . T. . Zur Systematik und Palokologie harzkonservierter Arthropoda einer Taphozonose aus dem Cenomanium von NW Frankreich. Berlin . Geowiss. Abhandl. (A) . 1978 . 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 . 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.2.4 . 2624-2834.