<p><strong>A new paper wasp from Late Eocene of France (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae)</strong></p>

ADRIEN PERRARD; ANDRÉ NEL; JAMES M. CARPENTER

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3753.6.2

Issue: Vol. 3753 No. 6: 10 Jan. 2014

Type: Article

Published: 2014-01-10

DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3753.6.2

Page range: 542–548

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A new paper wasp from Late Eocene of France (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae)

ADRIEN PERRARD⁺⁻
ANDRÉ NEL⁺⁻
JAMES M. CARPENTER⁺⁻

UMR 7205, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, 45 Rue Buffon, F-75005 Paris, France.

Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, 10024, New-York City, NY, USA.

Vespidae Polistinae Late Eocene gen. nov. sp. nov.

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Abstract

The new vespid genus and species Palaeopolistes jattioti gen. et. sp. nov. is described from the Late Eocene of Monteils (Gard, France). The new taxon has clear features of the Polistinae but its tribal assignment is uncertain.