Michael S. Engel, David A. Grimaldi
American Museum Novitates 2006 (3515), 1-7, (17 May 2006) https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3515[1:TFCSWH]2.0.CO;2
The first record of a fossil sclerogibbid wasp (Aculeata: Chrysidoidea) is reported. Sclerogibbodes embioleia, new genus and species, is described from a female preserved in Early Cretaceous (Neocomian) amber from Lebanon. The genus is sister to all other members of the Sclerogibbidae and is therefore placed in a monogeneric subfamily, Sclerogibbodinae, new subfamily. Sclerogibbids are obligate parasitoids of webspinners (order Embiodea = Embiidina, Embioptera), and thus the recovery of this lineage from Lebanese amber implies that webspinners were perhaps also present in the paleofauna.