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Issue: Vol. 4394 No. 3: 15 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4394.3.10
Page range: 443–448
Abstract views: 123
PDF downloaded: 4

Discovery of the first species of Dryinus Latreille (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) from Burmese amber

Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
Tropical Entomology Research Center, Via De Gasperi 10, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences, Animal Biology section, University of Catania, Via Androne 81, 95124 Catania, Italy
Department of Agriculture and Forestry Sciences, University of Tuscia, Via San Camillo de Lellis, I-01100 Viterbo, Italy
Hymenoptera Chrysidoidea Dryinus maderai Dryininae fossil Upper Cretaceous Lower Cenomanian

Abstract

Dryinus maderai sp. nov. (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae) is described from Upper Cretaceous Lower Cenomanian, Burmese amber (Myanmar). It is the first species of Dryinus Latreille found in this amber.

 

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