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A new genus and three new species of fossil braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers

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Sergey A. Belokobylskij ,
Maximilian G. Pankowski ,
Madeline V. Pankowski  and
Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón Open the ORCID record for Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón [Opens in a new window]
Sergey A. Belokobylskij
Affiliation:
Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, 199034, Russia.
Maximilian G. Pankowski
Affiliation:
16405 Fox Valley Terrace, Rockville, Maryland, 20853, USA. ,
Madeline V. Pankowski
Affiliation:
16405 Fox Valley Terrace, Rockville, Maryland, 20853, USA. ,
Alejandro Zaldívar-Riverón*
Affiliation:
Colección Nacional de Insectos, Instituto de Biología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 3er Circuito Exterior s/n, Cd. Universitaria, Copilco, Coyoacán, A. P. 70–233, C. P. 04510, Ciudad de México, México.
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Abstract

New parasitoid wasps of the family Braconidae are documented from Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers. A new fossil genus belonging to the braconid subfamily Exothecinae, Palaeocolastes n. gen., with its type species P. bruesi n. sp., is described and illustrated from Baltic amber. This represents the first reliable fossil record for a member of Exothecinae. Two additional new species from Baltic amber are also described: Ascogaster (Syntaphus) latitibialis n. sp. (Cheloninae) and Meteorus arasnitsyni n. sp. (Euphorinae). Another fossil species, Microtypus eocenus n. sp. (Microtypinae), is described from coeval Rovno amber (Ukraine), representing the first braconid species described from this deposit. A new record of a female of Diospilites brevicornis Brues, 1933 (Diospilitinae) from Baltic amber, together with variation of some diagnostic features of the species and redescription of its subfamily and genus, are also provided.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 95 , Issue 6 , November 2021 , pp. 1259 - 1272
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