Cretaceous Scolebythidae and Phylogeny of the Family (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) Author ENGEL, MICHAEL S. Author GRIMALDI, DAVID A. text American Museum Novitates 2007 2007-05-16 3568 1 1 16 http://www.bioone.org/perlserv/?request=get-abstract&doi=10.1206%2F0003-0082(2007)475%5B1%3ACSAPOT%5D2.0.CO%3B2 journal article 3668 10.1206/0003-0082(2007)475[1:CSAPOT]2.0.CO;2 3202c158-e1c4-4cbf-835f-3c1435527f6c 0003-0082 4735338 Boreobythus turonius , new species figures 1 , 4 DIAGNOSIS: As for the genus (see above). DESCRIPTION: As described for the genus, with the following additions: Total body length ca. 2.0 mm; forewing length ca. 1.3 mm . Head. Head longer than broad, upper tangent of compound eyes to vertex approximately equal to length of compound eye; inner margin of compound eyes straight, parallel; gena narrower than compound eye in lateral view. Scape short, approximately equal to combined lengths of F1 and F2; length of F1 equal to that of F2, both shorter than F3. Integument black except antenna dark brown. Mesosoma. Surface sculpturing unobservable, integument apparently black; legs dark brown. Forewing with basal vein confluent with 1cu-a; basal vein approximately straight with Rs and of equal length; hind wing unobservable; wing veins dark brown, membrane lightly infumate. Metasoma. Terga and sterna dark brown, apparently imbricate. HOLOTYPE : Female, NEW JERSEY : Sayreville, White Oaks pit, coll. Paul Nascimbene. Specimen deposited in the Amber Collection, Division of Invertebrate Zoology , American Museum of Natural History. The amber enclosing the holotype is turbid ( fig. 1 ) obscuring many features of the wasp. ETYMOLOGY: The specific epithet is a reference to Turonian, the age of the amber in which the fossil was discovered.