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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 4: August 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.4.14
Page range: 554-565
Abstract views: 170
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Two new species of Rasnichneumon (Ichneumonidae: Novichneumoninae) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

Institute of Zoology, Al-Farabi ave. 93, 050060 Almaty, Kazakhstan
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE-PSL, Université Des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France; Géosciences Rennes (UMR 6118), Université de Rennes, CNRS, F-35000 Rennes, France; Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (UMR 5554), Université de Montpellier, CNRS, F-34095 Montpellier, France
Ichneumonoidea Darwin wasps Mesozoic Diversity Burmese Myanmar Ichneumonidae Novichneumoninae

Abstract

We report two new species of Novichneumoninae from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber: Rasnichneumon klopfsteinae sp. nov. and Rasnichneumon gibbosus sp. nov. These new species increase the diversity of novichneumonine wasps documented from Kachin amber during the mid-Cretaceous. We emend the diagnosis of the genus Rasnichneumon to accommodate the morphology of the new species. Finally, we discuss the unique state of color preservation in the new specimens, uncommon morphological features of Rasnichneumon, shape of the ovipositor of novichneumonines and its implications.

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