Janzenella

Janzenella
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Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Infraorder: Proctotrupomorpha
Superfamily: Platygastroidea
Family: Janzenellidae
Johnson & Austin, 2021
Genus: Janzenella
Masner & Johnson, 2007
Type species
Janzenella innupta
Masner & Johnson, 2007
Other species
  • Janzenella theia Bremer et al., 2021

Janzenella is a genus of wasp, the only member of the family Janzenellidae within the superfamily Platygastroidea. It contains only a single living species, Janzenella innupta, which has only been collected in Costa Rica. Fossil members of the living species have also been described from Miocene aged Dominican amber. A Late Eocene fossil species, Janzenella theia is known from specimens entombed in Baltic amber.