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Taxon
a
Parasitoid larval life-habit
b
Dominant larval hosts
c
Host stage of
larval parasitoid
attack
d
Geochronologic
range
e
References
f
Liopteridae
Endoparasitoid to
ectoparasitoid
Coleoptera: Buprestidae,
Cerambycidae, Curculionidae
Larvae of wood
borers
Turonian–
Recent
Whitfield (2003), Liu
et al. (2007)
Protimaspidae
†
Endoparasitoid
i
—
Larvae of wood
borers
i
Turonian
Liu et al. (2007)
Stolamissidae
†
Endoparasitoid
i
—
Larvae of wood
borers
i
Turonian
Liu et al. (2007)
Platygastroidea
Platygastridae
Endoparasitoid
Hemiptera: Sternorrhyncha; Diptera:
Cecidomyiidae; Lepidoptera;
Hymenoptera
Insect eggs,
larvae of
gallers, scale
insects
Hauterivian–
Recent
Clausen (1940),
Whitfield (1998, 2003),
Grimaldi and Engel
(2005a)
Scelionidae
Endoparasitoid
Orthoptera; Mantodea; Hemiptera;
Neuroptera; Coleoptera; Diptera:
Tabanidae; Lepidoptera; Araneae
Insect eggs
Aptian–Recent Brues (1940), Clausen
(1940), Grimaldi and
Engel (2005a), Nel and
Azar (2005), Talamas
et al. (2017), Haas et al.
(2018)
Ceraphronoidea
Ceraphronidae
Endoparasitoid,
hyperparasitoid
Thysanoptera; Neuroptera;
Trichoptera; Diptera:
Cecidomyiidae, Cyclorrhapha;
Hymenoptera: Sphecoidea
Eggs, larvae,
pupae and
puparia
Santonian–
Recent
Alekseyev and Rasnitsyn
(1981), Whitfield (1998,
2003)
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