Peleserphidae
| Peleserphidae Temporal range: | |
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| Fossil and drawing of Arkadiserphus | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Superfamily: | Proctotrupoidea |
| Family: | †Peleserphidae Zhang, Rasnitsyn, Wang & Zhang, 2018 |
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Peleserphidae is an extinct family of wasps belonging to the superfamily Proctotrupoidea. It is currently known from four species in three genera. One (Arkadiserphus) from the Middle-Late Jurassic Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan, and the others (Peleserphus and Peleproctus) from mid Cretaceous Burmese amber from Myanmar. They are suggested to have targeted hosts hidden in substrates like wood, such as insect larvae.