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Issue: Vol. 5538 No. 2: 14 Nov. 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-11-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5538.2.6
Page range: 194-200
Abstract views: 222
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A horntail wasp from the Upper Miocene of France closely related to an extant Eastern Palaearctic species (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP50; 45 rue Buffon 75005 Paris; France
Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP50; 45 rue Buffon 75005 Paris; France; Division of Invertebrate Zoology; American Museum of Natural History; Central Park West at 79th Street; New York; New York 10024- 5192; USA
Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP50; 45 rue Buffon 75005 Paris; France; Géosciences Rennes (UMR 6118); Université de Rennes; CNRS; F-35000 Rennes; France; Institut des Sciences de l’Évolution (UMR 5554); Université de Montpellier; CNRS; F-34095; Montpellier; France
Institut de Systématique; Évolution; Biodiversité (ISYEB) Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle; CNRS; Sorbonne Université; EPHE; Université des Antilles; CP50; 45 rue Buffon 75005 Paris; France
Hymenoptera Insecta Siricoidea Xeris biogeography Late Miocene Palaearctic fauna

Abstract

The new siricid wasp Xeris muratensis sp. nov. is described from the Upper Miocene (ca. 5.60 ± 0.3 Ma) Konservat-Laggerstätte of Sainte-Reine (Cantal, France). Its wing venation characters closely resemble those of the extant Eastern Palaearctic siricid species Xeris malaisei Maa. The new species has a completely black body, vs. presence of yellow spots on head and thorax in X. malaisei. The entomofauna in this lacustrine maar consists of a mixture of extinct species or taxa lacking modern relatives that disappeared during the Pliocene-Pleistocene, and taxa with no discernible difference from their potential extant relatives.

 

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