‘ Where there are many cattle’ in the Eocene of Ukraine: Review of Ambositra Masner (Hymenoptera, Diapriidae, Ambositrinae) from Rovno amber, with the description of three new species
Author
Chemyreva, Vasilisa G.
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 1 Universitetskaya Emb., St Petersburg 199034, Russia.
Author
Vasilenko, Dmitry V.
Cherepovets State University, Lunacharsky Prospect 5, Cherepovets, Vologda Region, 162600, Russia. & Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya 123, Moscow, 117647, Russia.
Author
Perkovsky, Evgeny E.
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, 2100, Denmark.
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Zootaxa
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2024-05-02
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http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5446.4.3
journal article
10.11646/zootaxa.5446.4.3
1175-5326
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Ambositra famosa
Masner, 1961
(
Figs 6
,
7
)
Material examined.
Republic of South Africa
,
KwaZulu-Natal
:
Nhlosane
farm, 29°35ʹS 29°58ʹE,
1700-1900m
,
pitfalls
,
March 1994
,
J. Kotze
leg.,
1♀
,
1♂
;
Pietermaritzburg
,
Karkloof
,
1325m
, 29°19.1ʹS 30°15.5ʹE,
25.VII-25.IX.2005
,
MT
,
M. Mostovski
leg.,
1♀
.
Diagnosis.
Ambositra famosa
can be easily distinguished from all other known
Ambositra
species
by the combination of the following features: body length
2.1‒2.4 mm
; head about 1.5 times as long as wide and as high as wide; eye of females and males small, about 0.9 times as high as malar distance; gena behind eye long in females and males, about 1.5 times as long as wide of eye in dorsal view; occipital carina completely covered with foamy structures; scutellum without posterior scutellar pits; epicnemial pit absent; metapleuron bare except anteroventral metapleural pit (
Fig. 6F
); distal end of submarginal vein 0.6 times as wide as distance from it to anterior margin of the wing; female wing without marginal fringe (
Fig. 7D
); male A1 about as long as head, A3 and A4 equal in length, A4 with carina and emargination developed in its basal half.