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Issue: Vol. 5590 No. 4: 25 Feb. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5590.4.4
Page range: 531-544
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New fossil species from two genera of the subfamily Hormiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Eocene 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 fossil Chremylini Lysitermini Prochremylus Aulosaphes descriptions new subgenus key

Abstract

New species of the genus Prochremylus Brues, 1933, P. museumoceanus Belokobylskij, sp. nov., from the tribe Chremylini and of the genus Aulosaphes Muesebeck, 1935, Aulosaphes fumipennis Belokobylskij, sp. nov., from the tribe Lysitermini of the subfamily Hormiinae are described and illustrated from the late Eocene Baltic amber. The genus Aulosaphes Muesebeck is recorded as a fossil in Baltic amber for the first time. The new subgenus of the genus Aulosaphes, Antiquasaphes Belokobylskij, subgen. nov., is described and key to subgenera is provided. A detailed redescription of the fossil genus Prochremylus Brues is provided. The position of the hormiine taxa previously described as fossils is discussed.

 

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