Revision of Proctotrupidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) described by Ch. T. Brues from Baltic amber
Author
Kolyada, Victor A.
Author
Mostovski, Mike B.
text
Zootaxa
2007
1661
29
38
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.179943
e84e3daf-28e3-4200-9e74-40d4034485e3
1175-5326
179943
Genus
Oxyserphus
Masner, 1961
Type
species.
Proctotrupes maculipennis
Cameron
, 1888
; by original designation.
This is a large genus with about 20 named and a similar number of yet undescribed species, which is distributed in the Australasian and Oriental regions (
Townes & Townes 1981
), and eastern part of the Palaearctic, with one species reaching Europe (
Buhl 2004; Kolyada in press-a
); several yet unnamed species are known from Central
America
(Kolyada, pers. observ.). Representatives of this genus inhabit temperate and subtropical, often montane, forests and parasitise larvae of
Curculionidae
and
Anthribidae (Coleoptera)
. This genus was unknown in the fossil record, although it has been recently found in the the Early Oligocene Bembridge Marls, Isle of Wight,
UK
(Antropov
et al.
in press) and Eocene/Oligocene Florissant beds (Kolyada in pressb).