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Issue: Vol. 5389 No. 1: 18 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-18
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.1.6
Page range: 119-127
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A new genus and species of Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) with a four-segmented funicle from late Eocene Baltic amber

I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kiev; 01030 Ukraine
Rockville; Maryland; USA
I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology; National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; Kiev; 01030 Ukraine; Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen 2100; Denmark
Hymenoptera Fossil Encyrtinae key European ambers Electrocerus brevifuniculatus

Abstract

Electrocerus brevifuniculatus Simutnik gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on a female specimen from late Eocene Baltic amber. Placement of the new genus in the subfamily Encyrtinae is supported by the presence of a filum spinosum on the linea calva and the hypopygium not reaching the metasomal apex. A key to the genera of late Eocene Encyrtinae is provided. The new taxon differs from all known extinct and most extant encyrtids by its four-segmented female funicle.

 

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