New genera and species of Maimetshidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea s. l.) from the Turonian of Botswana, with comments on the status of the family Author Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Str., Moscow, 117997 Russia, and Natural History Museum, London SW 7 5 BD, UK rasna_us2002@yahoo.com Author Brothers, Denis J. School of Biological and Conservation Sciences, University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, P. Bag X 01, Scottsville, 3209 South Africa Brothers@ukzn.ac.za text African Invertebrates 2009 2009-06-30 50 1 191 204 journal article 54399 10.5733/afin.050.0108 82be9b01-a826-4907-8f04-a792b3cb6774 2305-2562 7668179 926383C8-1B4E-4F5D-9FF2-33C9FFC84DD2 Maimetshorapia africana sp. n. Fig. 8 Etymology: The species name is Latin for ‘African’. Description: Ground colour moderately dark, pterostigma and venation less so; antenna and most probably legs pale. Head transverse, apparently with large eyes; temples moderately narrow, convex.Apical 8 flagellar segments narrow, as long to almost twice as long as wide. Propodeum coarsely areolate dorsally, closely so laterally, areola about twice as wide as long, about as long as area basalis. Forewing with 1RS+M parallel to 1Cu, starting at about midlength of basal vein; cell 3rm shorter than high. Ovipositor sheath straight, probably elongately triangular, about as long as valvifers 1+2 and as cell 3r. Body length as preserved 5.3 mm , forewing length to apex of cell 3r about 2.7 mm , ovipositor sheath 0.75 mm . Holotype : ^BP /2/28222-11; almost complete but lacking hind wings, legs, and most of antennae. BOTSWANA : Orapa ; Upper Cretaceous , Turonian.