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Issue: Vol. 3731 No. 3: 31 Oct. 2013
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2013-10-31
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3731.3.10
Page range: 395–398
Abstract views: 21
PDF downloaded: 1

Happy birthday Willi Hennig!—Hyptia hennigi sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), a fossil ensign wasp from Eocene Baltic amber

Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Germany
Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, The University of Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia.
Eocene new species Old World distribution

Abstract

The ensign wasp genus Hyptia Illiger was previously known from 52 extant New World species and one fossil species from Lower Miocene to Upper Oligocene Mexican amber. Hyptia hennigi sp. nov., from Eocene Baltic amber, is the oldest known species and the first member of the genus from the Old World.