As taxonomists have examined this group more closely, they have become less certain about which other group of wasps represents the nearest living relatives of the Mymarommatidae. In recent years, it has been proposed that the nearest relatives of Mymarommatoidea are the extinct Serphitoidea, including the family
Serphitidae, and therefore claim the Mymarommatidae are essentially "
living fossils". †
Palaeomymar is known from a single species (
P. succini Meunier) from
Eocene aged
Baltic amber. †
Archaeromma is known from 10 species spread across
Laurasia during the
Cretaceous dating from the
Albian to the
Campanian.
Mymaromma has 11 described extant species. Another species of
Mymaromella, M. duerrenfeldi, is known from
Miocene amber in Sicily.
Zealaromma has two extant species:
Z. insulare and
Z. valentinei. Both species are known from New Zealand. == References ==