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Issue: Vol. 5418 No. 4: 1 Mar. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-03-01
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5418.4.2
Page range: 328-338
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First record of the parasitoid family Ismaridae (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers with the description of a new genus and two new species

Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; 1 Universitetskaya Emb.; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; 2100; Denmark
Cherepovets State University; Lunacharsky Prospect 5; Cherepovets; Vologda Region; 162600; Russia; Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Profsoyuznaya 123; Moscow; 117647; Russia
Hymenoptera Ismaridae fossils Cenozoic Paleogene European ambers new genus

Abstract

A new genus, Lubomirus gen. nov., of the family Ismaridae (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea) from the late Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers is described and illustrated. The new genus is the second known genus of the family Ismaridae. The two new species, Lubomirus masneri sp. nov. from Rovno amber and Lubomirus victori sp. nov. from Baltic amber, are described. The diagnosis of the Ismaridae family and the single extant genus of the family—Ismarus Haliday—are clarified. The systematic position of Cretapria Fujiyama, 1994 is discussed.

 

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