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A New Lineage of Enigmatic Diaprioid Wasps in Cretaceous Amber (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)
- Source :
- American Museum Novitates. 3771:1-23
- Publication Year :
- 2013
- Publisher :
- American Museum of Natural History (BioOne sponsored), 2013.
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Abstract
- A new family of microhymenopteran wasps is described and figured from three new species discovered in Cretaceous amber of Spain (Albian) and New Jersey (Turonian). Spathiopterygidae Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new family, is allied to the Diapriidae and Maamingidae (Proctotrupomorpha: Diaprioidea), sharing with these families putatively derived features relative to Monomachidae. The family contains three genera and three species, all new: Spathiopteryx alavarommopsis Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new genus and species, and Myamaropsis turolensis Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new genus and species, both from the Early Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain, and Spathopria sayrevillensis Engel, Ortega-Blanco, and Grimaldi, new genus and species, from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) of New Jersey. Spathopria sayrevillensis is reconstructed using x-ray synchrotron microtomography In addition, a peculiar new genus and species, Iberopria perialla Engel, Ortega-Blanco, and Delclos, of stem-group Diapriidae is described from Sp...
Details
- ISSN :
- 1937352X and 00030082
- Volume :
- 3771
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- American Museum Novitates
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........fcd81243babd64a279a64e7b76246b92