Abstract
Acropiesta perrichoti sp. nov., a new belytine wasp is described based on a well preserved male specimen from Eocene Baltic amber. This is the second fossil species of this extant genus, known already from the same amber deposit by Acropiesta janzeni Buhl, 2002.
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