The Ephialtitidae is an extinct family of wasps, with 29 genera reported from the Lower Jurassic-Lower Cretaceous in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, China, Mongolia, Russia, Spain, Germany and Brazil, and flourished in the Middle–Late Jurassic (Meunier, 1903; Rasnitsyn, 1975, 1977, 1990, 1999, 2008a, b; Zessin, 1981, 1985; Zhang, 1986; Darling & Sharkey, 1990; Rasnitsyn & Ansorge, 2000; Rasnitsyn & Martínez-Delclòs, 2000; Zhang et al., 2002; Rasnitsyn et al., 2003; Rasnitsyn & Zhang, 2004, 2010; Zhang et al., 2010; Ding et al., 2013, 2016; Li et al., 2013, 2014, 2015; Zhang et al., 2014). It is considered to be the most basal group of the Apocrita, one of two suborders of the order Hymenoptera (Rasnitsyn & Zhang, 2010).