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Issue: Vol. 5297 No. 4: 6 Jun. 2023
Type: Article
Published: 2023-06-06
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5297.4.8
Page range: 587-593
Abstract views: 217
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A new and the second 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
Hymenoptera Cenozoic Ephedrus fossil aphid parasitoid ovipositor sheath pubescence description

Abstract

A new species of aphid parasitoid, Ephedrus carsteni Davidian, sp. nov. (Braconidae: Aphidiinae), is described and illustrated from Late Eocene Baltic amber. This new species was compared with the fossil Ephedrus mirabilis Timon-David, 1944 (Oligocene imprint from Bassin de Marseille), E. primordialis Brues, 1933 (Eocene Baltic amber) and E. rasnitsyni Davidian & Kaliuzhna, 2021 (Eocene Sakhalinian amber), as well as with the extant E. validus (Haliday, 1833) and E. carinatus Tomanović, 2020.

 

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