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Issue: Vol. 5448 No. 4: 14 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5448.4.10
Page range: 591-600
Abstract views: 35
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First reliable fossil record of the subfamily Rhysipolinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): a new subgenus and species of the genus Rhysipolis Foerster, 1863 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 Late Eocene Ichneumonoidea Cantharoctonus Trichelyon Lepidoptera parasitoid fossil venation

Abstract

A new fossil subgenus and species of the genus Rhysipolis Foerster, 1863 from the subfamily Rhysipolinae, Rhysipolis (Granulopolis) simutniki Belokobylskij, subgen. et sp. nov., are described and illustrated from late Eocene Baltic amber. The genus Trichelyon Ortega-Blanco & Engel, 2012 is synonymised with Clinocentrus Haliday, 1833 (syn. nov.) and a new combination, Clinocentrus tadkeshwarense (Ortega-Blanco & Engel, 2012), comb. nov., is suggested. The status of the previously described species in the subfamily Rhysipolinae are discussed.

 

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