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Issue: Vol. 3514 No. 1: 11 Oct. 2012
Type: Articles
Published: 2012-10-11
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3514.1.4
Page range: 70–78
Abstract views: 30
PDF downloaded: 1

A new species of the diverse Cretaceous genus Cretevania Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from Spanish amber

Dept. Estratigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociències Marines, Facultat de Geologia, Universitat de Barcelona, E-08071, Barcelona, Spain
Museo Geominero, Instituto Geológico y Minero de España, Ríos Rosas 23, E-28003 Madrid, Spain
Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive—Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049-2811, USA
Hymenoptera ensign wasps new taxon amber Albian Spain

Abstract

Cretevania soplaensis nov. sp. is described from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) amber from El Soplao (Rábago, Cantabria, northern Spain). Although the studied specimen is incomplete, its preserved parts permit us to distinguish it from the previously described species. A discussion about probable sexual dimorphism in Cretevania and possible consequences for the identification of new species based on specimens of unknown or uncertain sex is included.

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