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Issue: Vol. 5415 No. 4: 23 Feb. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-02-23
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5415.4.4
Page range: 552-560
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Properhyssalus, a new fossil genus of braconid wasps close to the genus Rhyssalus Haliday (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Rhyssalinae) from Baltic amber

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Kaliningrad Amber Museum; Marshal Vasilevskiy Square; 1; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia
Hymenoptera Eocene Rhyssalini Rhyssalus clavator Palaeorhyssalus fossil venation ovipositor

Abstract

The new braconid genus and species from the subfamily Rhyssalinae, Properhyssalus szechowskii Belokobylskij, gen. et sp. nov., from late Eocene Baltic amber are described and illustrated. The differences between the new genus and the type species of Rhyssalus Haliday, 1833, Rh. clavator Haliday, 1833, are provided. The position of the previously described from Baltic amber species Rhyssalus brevicornis Brues, 1933 and Rh. rugosus Brues, 1933, as well as Palaeorhyssalus dubitosus Brues, 1933, are discussed.

 

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