A new genus and species of Pristocerinae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) from upper Eocene Baltic amber with a review of conspecific association from insect fossils
Author
Tribull, Carly Melissa
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1044-0486
Farmingdale State College (State University of New York), Biology Department, Farmingdale NY, USA
cmtribull@gmail.com
Author
Pankowski, Madeline V.
Rockville, Maryland, USA
Author
Colombo, Wesley Dondoni
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8729-4635
Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo, Departamento de Ciencias Biologicas, Vitoria ES, Brazil
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Journal of Hymenoptera Research
2021
2021-08-31
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119
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http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.85.68658
journal article
http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/jhr.85.68658
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Archeonesia eocena Tribull, Pankowski & Colombo
sp. nov.
Description.
Male holotype (Figs
1
-
4
). Same as the genus, except for the following features: body length 4.0 mm. Mandible pentadentate. Palpal formula 5:3. Genitalia not visible.
Female allotype (Figs
1
-
3
,
5
). Same as the genus, except for the following features: body length 3.30 mm. Mandible not unidendate, either bidendate or tridendate, but obscured by bubbles in resin. Palps obscured. Metasoma polished.
Type material.
Holotype, deposited at the AMNH Invertebrate Zoology Collection (specimen catalogue number AMNH_IZC 00361788). Two complete flat wasps are embedded in amber measuring about 21 mm
x
11 mm. There are numerous bubbles, but no other syninclusions.
Etymology.
The species epithet
Archeonesia eocena
represents the geological epoch the species is known from.
Stratigraphic horizon.
Priabonian, 33.9 to 37.7 million years ago (
Cohen et al. 2020
), upper Eocene.