<documentID-CLB-Dataset="24843"ID-DOI="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.32256"ID-GBIF-Dataset="d0a25d12-e48e-4242-b8ae-631ed299ba0b"ID-Pensoft-Pub="1314-2607-73-3"ID-Pensoft-UUID="83022A7D9FEA530F8265331F43E0F1A9"ID-Zenodo-Dep="3553179"ID-ZooBank="61D34EE713A348FB8C5530B76F60F1AA"ModsDocID="1314-2607-73-3"checkinTime="1574358798750"checkinUser="pensoft"docAuthor="Talamas, Elijah J., Johnson, Norman F., Shih, Chungkun & Ren, Dong"docDate="2019"docId="55415910A3715A74AF40379B74565325"docLanguage="en"docName="JourHymenoptRes 73: 3-38"docOrigin="Journal of Hymenoptera Research 73"docPubDate="2019-11-18"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.73.32256"docTitle="Proterosceliopsis Ortega-Blanco, McKellar & Engel 2014"docType="treatment"docVersion="6"id="83022A7D9FEA530F8265331F43E0F1A9"lastPageNumber="3"masterDocId="83022A7D9FEA530F8265331F43E0F1A9"masterDocTitle="Proterosceliopsidae: A new family of Platygastroidea from Cretaceous amber"masterLastPageNumber="38"masterPageNumber="3"pageNumber="3"updateTime="1732932569603"updateUser="ExternalLinkService">
<mods:affiliationid="97462BB98287CB1E994697E3FA14CF3B">College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China & Florida State Collection of Arthropods, Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Gainesville, FL 32608, USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="906076E5BF1296765A6286B9878710B7">Department of Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, The Ohio State University, 1315 Kinnear Road, Columbus, Ohio 43212, USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="23252E3A9A6CB623437DB7F7124757D4">College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China & Department of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 20013 - 7012, USA</mods:affiliation>
<mods:affiliationid="C197D200DAFF82B6DE24567ED7ABED38">College of Life Sciences, Capital Normal University, 105 Xisanhuanbeilu, Haidian District, Beijing 100048, China</mods:affiliation>
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<bibRefCitationid="D88002BBEFC8898672CE6372C0D4DEA2"DOI="https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.56.10388"author="Talamas, EJ"editor="Talamas, EJ"journalOrPublisher="Journal of Hymenoptera Research"pageId="0"pageNumber="3"pagination="241 - 261"refId="B25"refString="Talamas, EJ, Johnson, NF, Buffington, ML, Dong, R, 2017a. Archaeoteleia Masner in the Cretaceous and a new species of Proteroscelio Brues (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea). In: Talamas, EJ, Buffington, ML, Eds., Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 56: 241 - 261, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.56.10388"title="Archaeoteleia Masner in the Cretaceous and a new species of Proteroscelio Brues (Hymenoptera, Platygastroidea)."url="https://doi.org/10.3897/jhr.56.10388"volume="56"volumeTitle="Advances in the Systematics of Platygastroidea."year="2017 a">Talamas et al. 2017a</bibRefCitation>
: Facial striae: absent. Malar sulcus: present. Malar striae: absent. Orbital carina: absent. Setation of compound eye: absent. Torulus: opening anteriorly. Frontal ledge: absent. OOL: lateral ocellus separated from compound eye by less than one ocellar diameter. Macrosculpture of head: absent. Hyperoccipital carina: absent. Occipital carina: present, continuous dorsally and ventrally extending to posterior articulation of the mandible.
: submarginal (Sc+R), marginal (C+R), postmarginal (R1) and stigmal vein (r) present; C extending proximally past bulla; 1Rs short and nebulous; 2Rs sclerotized and extending to wing margin. Basal vein (Rs+M) and M+Cu nebulous to weakly sclerotized. Median vein (M) present as a nebulous line in distal portion of the wing; tibial spur formula: 1-2-2.
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is based largely on specimens from Burmese amber, which provide far greater detail than the original description, and the two descriptions are congruent as far as can be observed. However, it should be noted that depressions along the anterior margin of the metasomal tergites in
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<bibRefCitationid="D4FDA47DE5410E077B2FDCE6264CE5A2"DOI="https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1463"author="Ortega-Blanco, J"journalOrPublisher="Bulletin of Geosciences"pageId="0"pageNumber="3"pagination="553 - 571"refId="B20"refString="Ortega-Blanco, J, McKellar, RC, Engel, MS, 2014. Diverse scelionid wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Bulletin of Geosciences 89: 553 - 571, DOI: https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1463"title="Diverse scelionid wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea)."url="https://doi.org/10.3140/bull.geosci.1463"volume="89"year="2014">Ortega-Blanco et al. (2014)</bibRefCitation>
) it is unclear if these depressions are present. In cases where exudate is absent, photography of these depressions can be difficult, particularly in darkly colored specimens and when the amber is turbid.