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Issue: Vol. 6 No. 3: June 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-14
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.3.6
Page range: 242–249
Abstract views: 235
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A new species of Cretevania Rasnitsyn, 1975 (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae) from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber

Univ. Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, F-35000, Rennes, France
Univ. Rennes, CNRS, Géosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, F-35000, Rennes, France; Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France; CNRS, UMR 5554 Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution de Montpellier (Université de Montpellier), Place Eugène Bataillon, F-34095, Montpellier, France
Hymenoptera Evaniidae Burmese amber Evanioidea Myanmar hatchet wasp taxonomy

Abstract

Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov., a new species of evaniid wasp (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae), is described and illustrated from a male specimen preserved in the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber of the Noije Bum deposits (Myanmar). Cretevania kachinensis sp. nov. is readily attributed to the genus Cretevania because of its forewing venation (i.e., forewing with cell 1+2r elongate, longer than 3r and more than twice as long as pterostigma length, 3r narrower triangular, nearly as wide as 1+2r), but differs from all other species mainly because of its veins 2Rs+M (more developed than a simple contacting point) and 1Rs (subvertical to R), and the cell 2cua conformation (i.e., rectangular). This description highlights the underestimated diversity of evanioids in the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber.

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