Fossil Darwin wasps (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from Baltic amber Author Manukyan, Andranik R. Kaliningrad Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskiy Square 1, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia Author Zhindarev, Leonid A. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Leninskiye Gory, 1, GSP- 1, Moscow 119991, Russia text Palaeoentomology 2021 2021-12-14 4 6 637 647 journal article 2968 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.6.13 5323143f-4530-4bd7-a643-9b34fc48c2d7 2624-2834 5778510 9924541E-6D36-4B6C-85B1-F12EF6830012 Subfamily Townesitinae Kasparyan, 1994 This is an extinct subfamily known from Baltic amber and Bembridge have been described. Undescribed taxa were reported also from the Tadushi Formation ( Kopylov et al ., 2018 ). They are numerous in Baltic amber and are second in number only to cryptines and pherhombines— more than 18% according to our own data. The subfamily is represented in Baltic amber by five species from four genera ( Kasparyan, 1994 ): Rasnitsynites tarsalis Kasparyan, 1994 , Lygurella tibialis Kasparyan, 1994 (tribe Rasnitsynitini ), Townesites mandibularis Kasparyan, 1994 , Marjorietta minor Kasparyan, 1994 and M. major Kasparyan, 1994 (tribe Townesitini ); the most common species is M. minor . Two species, Marjorietta gigantea Khalaim, 2014 and M . disrupta ( Cockerell, 1921 ) , are known from Bembridge marls, and another species, Acourtia perplexa Cockerell, 1921 , was described from a single forewing and is tentatively placed in Townesitinae ( Khalaim, 2014 ) .