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Issue: Vol. 4482 No. 1: 17 Sept. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-09-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.11
Page range: 197–200
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First record of the genus Phanerotomella (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Baltic amber with the description of a new species

Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystems Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Current address: Museum Wiesbaden, Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany.
Hymenoptera Baltic amber Cheloninae parasitoid wasp new species

Abstract

A new but exinct chelonine wasp species, Phanerotomella brevivena Kittel sp. nov. (Braconidae: Cheloninae) of the modern genus Phanerotomella is described from Baltic amber. This new species differs from all other extant Phanerotomella species by having the fore wing vein SR-1 only partially sclerotised. This is the first fossil record of the genus in amber.

 

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