Serphitidae

Serphitidae Temporal range: Mesozoic PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N [1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Hymenoptera
Suborder:	Apocrita
Family:	Serphitidae
Subfamilies
see below

Serphitidae is a family fossil of insects Hymenoptera.

Taxonomy

this family was described in 1937 by the American entomologist Charles Thomas Brues to classify a fossil insect caught in an amber piece from Canada. Te species was named Serphites paradoxus. After that, more insect genus were described and included in this family, like que Archaeromma and Distylopus by the Japaneses entomologist Hiroshi Yoshimoto in 1975, from fossils also found in Canadian ambar, or Aposerphites, Microserphites, Palaeomymar and new species of Serphites in 1979 by the Russian entomologist Mikhail Vasilievich Kozlov and Alexandr Rasnitsyn, from Siberian ambar .^[2]

References

1. David Grimaldi, Michael S. Engel (2005). Cambridge University Press, ed. "Evolution of the Insects".
2. George O. Poinar (1992). Stanford University Press, ed. "Life in amber": 350. ISBN 0804720010. Retrieved 13 August 2010.