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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 5: September 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-09-22
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.5
Page range: 445–451
Abstract views: 281
PDF downloaded: 15

The first Proctotrupidae (Hymenoptera) in Burmese amber, with description of a new genus and species

A.A. Borissiak Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647 Moscow, Russia; Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, UK
A.A. Borissiak Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647 Moscow, Russia
A.A. Borissiak Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647 Moscow, Russia
Kirchgasse 11, 71083 Herrenberg, Germany
Hymenoptera fossil insects Disogmini Burmese amber new taxa

Abstract

Cresogmus grimaldii Rasnitsyn & Kolyada gen. et sp. nov. is described from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber in the tribe Disogmini (subfamily Proctotrupinae) as the first representative of the family Proctotrupidae encased in Burmese amber. This new genus is diagnosed by the occipital carina extending to the lower half of the head, the pronotum lacking an epomia, the pterostigma short, the petiole open but very short, the ovipositor wide and bent throughout, with its apex widely rounded. Diagnostic characters of Disogmini are revised.

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