Mymarommatidae

†Archaeromma Yoshimoto, 1975 Mymaromella Girault, 1931 Mymaromma Girault, 1920† †Palaeomymar Meunier, 1901 Zealaromma Gibson, Read and Huber, 2007 The Mymarommatidae, sometimes referred to as false fairy wasps, are a very small family of microscopic parasitic wasps.

Psocoptera, long suspected as their hosts based on circumstantial evidence,[2] was confirmed to be the hosts of at least some mymarommatids in 2022, after specimens of Mymaromma menehune were observed emerging from the eggs of a member of the pscopteran family Lepidopsocidae.

Mymarommatids are distinguished by the presence of a pleated (folded) membrane connecting the front and back halves of the head extending from the mandible to the top of the head, which is presumably expanded by muscle or hydrostatic pressure, likely to aid in breaking open the walls of the egg capsule.

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.