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Issue: Vol. 5389 No. 3: 20 Dec. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.3.6
Page range: 386-392
Abstract views: 139
PDF downloaded: 13

Third new fossil species of the genus Ephedrus Haliday, 1833 (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae) from Baltic amber

All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (FSBSI VIZR); Podbelskogo; 3; St Petersburg—Pushkin 196608; Russia
Kaliningrad Amber Museum; Marshal Vasilevskiy Square; 1; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Hymenoptera Cenozoic Ephedrus fossil aphid parasitoid description ovipositor sheath

Abstract

A new species of aphid parasitoid from the genus Ephedrus Haliday, E. zaikai Davidian, sp. nov. (Braconidae: Aphidiinae), is described and illustrated from Late Eocene Baltic amber. This new species was compared with described fossil taxa Ephedrus mirabilis Timon-David, 1944 (Oligocene imprint from Bassin de Marseille), Ephedrus carsteni Davidian, 2023 and E. primordialis Brues, 1933 (both from Eocene Baltic amber), and E. rasnitsyni Davidian & Kaliuzhna, 2021 (Eocene Sakhalinian amber), as well as with extant E. niger Gautier, Bonnamour & Gaumont, 1929 and E. chaitophori Gӓrdenfors, 1986.

 

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