Abstract
The lowermost Eocene Oise amber (France) is a hotspot of paleodiversity for the small wasp family Bethylidae, with seven records of different genera and species recorded (Falières & Nel, 2018, 2019). The middle Eocene Baltic amber has yielded 28 bethylid species in 13 genera (Azevedo et al., 2018), but it was much more extensively studied than the Oise amber. Here we describe the second representative of the subfamily Pristocerinae from the Oise amber. It corresponds to a new extinct genus and species.
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