Diversity and phylogeny of the extinct wasp subfamily Lancepyrinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) revealed by mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber
Author
Brazidec, Manuel
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0860-8972
Univ. Rennes, CNRS, Geosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes, France & State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 39 East Beijing Road, Nanjing 210008, China
manuel.brazidec@gmail.com
Author
Legendre, Frederic
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5900-8048
Institut de Systematique, Evolution, Biodiversite (ISYEB), Museum national d'Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Universite, EPHE, Universite des Antilles, CP 50, 57, rue Cuvier, 75005 Paris, France
Author
Perrichot, Vincent
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7973-0430
Univ. Rennes, CNRS, Geosciences Rennes, UMR 6118, 35000 Rennes, France
text
Arthropod Systematics & amp; Phylogeny
2023
2023-04-04
81
345
369
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e96737
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/asp.81.e96737
1864-8312-81-345
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Gwesped groehni
sp. nov.
Figs 3
, 4
Etymology.
The specific epithet is a patronym honouring Carsten
Groehn
, who generously made the specimen available for study. The specific epithet is to be treated as a noun in the genitive case.
Material studied.
Holotype
GPIH.5068, a complete female; housed in the
Carsten
Groehn
amber collection (under CCGG no. 11341) of the
Leibniz Institute
for the
Analysis of Biodiversity Change
,
Hamburg
,
Germany
(GPIH).
Type locality and horizon.
Noije Bum, Hukawng Valley, Kachin State, northern Myanmar; late Albian-early Cenomanian, ca. 99 Ma, mid-Cretaceous.
Diagnosis.
As for genus.
Description.
Body depressed and poorly pubescent (length 3.82 mm). -
Head
prognathous, quadrate, about as long as wide, with metallic reflections; LH: 0.65 mm, WH: 0.56 mm; WF: 0.39 mm, HE: ca. 0.19 mm; frons flat, slightly punctate; compound eye rounded, located anteriorly on head; clypeus with median lobe only slightly projecting forward, lateral lobe poorly developed; antenna short, barely reaching pronotum posteriorly; scape 2.2 times as long as pedicel (length 0.20 mm); pedicel longer than flagellomeres 1-9; 10 flagellomeres, all compact, as long as wide; flagellomere tapering at apex, flagellomere 10 slightly longer than flagellomeres 1-9 (0.05 mm vs. 0.11 mm); occipital carina present. -
Mesosoma
narrow with dorsum smooth (length 1.56 mm); propleuron elongate,
'neck-shaped'
, visible dorsally; dorsal pronotal area narrower anteriorly, lateral margin slightly incurved, posterior margin straight; anteromesoscutum short, notaulus and parapsidal signum present; mesoscuto-mesoscutellar sulcus conspicuous, widely connecting lateral grooves; mesoscutellum subquadrate; metanotum developed, overlapping mesoscutellum posteriorly; metapectal-propodeal complex with metapostnotal median carina, lateral margin slightly outcurved, posterior corner with small lateral dentiform projection. Fore wing hyaline, posteriorly reaching fourth metasomal segment (LFW = 2.19 mm); C, Sc+R, M+Cu, 1A tubular; 1Rs and 1M aligned; cu-a slightly post-furcal to 1M; Rs+M tubular, reaching apex of pterostigma; pterostigma rounded; 2r-rs arising from distal half of pterostigma; 2r-rs&Rs tubular, reaching wing margin; [2R1] cell large; post-stigmal abscissa of R1 tubular for half-length of [2R1] cell. Legs slender; tibial spur configuration 1-2-2; tarsal claws slightly curved; arolium small. -
Metasoma
fusiform, smooth (length 1.61 mm); petiole relatively long, conspicuous; six tergites visible, convex; short sting exserted.
Figure 4.
Line drawing of
Gwesped groehni
gen. et sp. nov.
, holotype female number GPIH.5068. Scale bar: 1 mm.