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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 6: December 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.7
Page range: 584–591
Abstract views: 310
PDF downloaded: 17

Re-evaluation of the Cretaceous family Plumalexiidae and its relationships (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea)

School of Life Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Private Bag X01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa
Universidade Federal do Paraná, Departamento de Zoologia, Laboratório de Biologia Comparada de Hymenoptera, Caixa Postal 19020, 81531-980, Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil
Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea fossil morphology phylogeny Plumalexius Plumariidae

Abstract

Information provided by eight specimens of Plumalexius ohmkuhnlei Rasnitsyn & Brothers, 2020 has enabled significant amplification of our knowledge of the characteristics of the genus Plumalexius as a whole. Analysis of a matrix including this additional information has confirmed and strengthened the conclusions of Brothers’s ten-year old paper describing the family Plumalexiidae, and the genus and species Plumalexius rasnitsyni Brothers, 2011, and evaluating the phylogeny of the Chrysidoidea based on morphology.

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