Geoscelionidae

{{Short description|Family of wasps}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| oldest_fossil = Cenomanian

| image = Geoscelionidae.jpg

| image_caption = Huddlestonium exu (top) Plaumannion fritzi (bottom)

| taxon = Geoscelionidae

| authority = Engel & Huang, 2017

| subdivision = See text

}}

Geoscelionidae is a family of wasps in the superfamily Platygastroidea. It contains three extant species in two genera, native to South America and Africa, and several other genera known from fossils.{{Cite journal|last1=Chen|first1=Huayan|last2=Lahey|first2=Zachary|last3=Talamas|first3=Elijah J.|last4=Valerio|first4=Alejandro A.|last5=Popovici|first5=Ovidiu A.|last6=Musetti|first6=Luciana|last7=Klompen|first7=Hans|last8=Polaszek|first8=Andrew|last9=Masner|first9=Lubomír|last10=Austin|first10=Andrew D.|last11=Johnson|first11=Norman F.|date=2021|title=An integrated phylogenetic reassessment of the parasitoid superfamily Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha) results in a revised familial classification|journal=Systematic Entomology|language=en|volume=46|issue=4|pages=1088–1113|doi=10.1111/syen.12511|s2cid=237486714|issn=1365-3113|doi-access=free}} It was originally erected as the tribe Geoscelionini within Scelionidae.{{Cite journal|last1=Engel|first1=Michael S.|last2=Huang|first2=Diying|last3=Alqarni|first3=Abdulaziz S.|last4=Cai|first4=Chenyang|last5=Alvarado|first5=Mabel|last6=Breitkreuz|first6=Laura C.V.|last7=Azar|first7=Dany|date=January 2017|title=An apterous scelionid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)|journal=Comptes Rendus Palevol|volume=16|issue=1|pages=5–11|doi=10.1016/j.crpv.2016.03.005|issn=1631-0683|doi-access=free}} It was raised to a full family in 2021.