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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 6: December 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.3
Page range: 537–543
Abstract views: 335
PDF downloaded: 15

A new genus and species of the aphid parasitoids (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from the Eocene Sakhalinian amber

All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (FSBSI VIZR), Podbelskogo, 3, St Petersburg – Pushkin 196608, Russia
Kaliningrad Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskiy Square, 1, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg 199034, Russia
Hymenoptera Braconidae Aphidiinae Cenozoic Paleogene parasitoid of aphids pubescence ovipositor sheaths new taxa

Abstract

The new fossil genus and species, Sakhalinoctonus alexrasnitsyni Davidian, gen. et sp. nov., of hymenopteran parasitoids of aphids from the subfamily Aphidiinae (Braconidae) is described from the Middle Eocene Sakhalinian amber. This new genus is similar with the extinct Protacanthoides Mackauer, 1961 and Promonoctonia Starý, 1973 as well as with the extant Calaphidius Mackauer, 1961, Indaphidius Starý, 1979, Aclitus Foerster, 1862 and Archaphidus Starý & Sсhlinger, 1967, and differs from them by the small number of antennal segments, details of wing venation and propodeum areolation, the shape and pubescence of the ovipositor sheaths.

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