Cretaceous Scolebythidae and Phylogeny of the Family (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea)
Author
ENGEL, MICHAEL S.
Author
GRIMALDI, DAVID A.
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American Museum Novitates
2007
2007-05-16
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journal article
3668
10.1206/0003-0082(2007)475[1:CSAPOT]2.0.CO;2
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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.