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Issue: Vol. 5446 No. 4: 2 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-02
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5446.4.3
Page range: 499-516
Abstract views: 39
PDF downloaded: 3

‘Where there are many cattle’ in the Eocene of Ukraine: Review of Ambositra Masner (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Ambositrinae) from Rovno amber, with the description of three new species

Zoological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; 1 Universitetskaya Emb.; St Petersburg 199034; Russia
Cherepovets State University; Lunacharsky Prospect 5; Cherepovets; Vologda Region; 162600; Russia; Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Profsoyuznaya 123; Moscow; 117647; Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; 2100; Denmark
Hymenoptera Ambositra Ambositrinae fossils Cenozoic Paleogene European ambers new species

Abstract

Three species of the genus Ambositra: A. epicnemia sp. nov., A. bicarinata sp. nov. and A. masneri sp. nov. are described from Eocene Rovno amber. The new combination Ambositra villumi (Brazidec & Vilhelmsen) comb. nov. is suggested for the extinct diapriid wasp Basalys villumi described from Baltic amber. The female of A. villumi is described. A detailed illustration of the single extant species Ambositra famosa Masner and the original illustrated key for all known Ambositra species is given. The diagnosis of the genus Ambositra is clarified.

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