At the dawn of megadiversity - Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber Author UImer, Jonah M. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9185-6378 Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Institute of Biology, Biological Systematics (190 w), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany jonah.ulmer@gmail.com Author Jansta, Petr https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6409-3603 Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic Author Azar, Dany State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, China & Lebanese University, Faculty of Sciences II, Department of Natural Sciences, Fanar, Matn, Lebanon Author Krogmann, Lars https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3724-1735 Department of Entomology, State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Rosenstein 1, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany & Institute of Biology, Biological Systematics (190 w), University of Hohenheim, Stuttgart, Germany text Journal of Hymenoptera Research 2023 2023-10-23 96 879 924 http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.105494 journal article http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.96.105494 1314-2607-96-879 DB845B3662BA4DA183705B36E5916BB0 091C960727095BAD977C9A253E846630 Protoita Ulmer & Krogmann gen. nov. Diagnosis. Small, less than 1 mm in length. Head transverse in dorsal view, wider than mesosoma and with temple narrow. Metasoma sessile, broadly associated with mesosoma, and in dorsal view triangular in shape; syntergum no longer than preceding tergite; cerci digitiform. Female with exerted ovipositor at most 1/4 as long as length of metasoma.