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Ronquist
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1999: 33
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:
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: Shaw 1990: 578; 2007.
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genus:
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(monobasic).
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Diagnosis: Head without ocular carina, without subantennal groove accommodating antennal base.Vertex with (in
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genus) or without longitudinal median sulcus.Antenna filiform, with scape not elongate, flagellomeres variable in number (known as at least 14 to 17). Mandible with four teeth (mandibles perhaps rarely asymmetrical, with 4 and 3 teeth). Pronotum short medially, mesoscutum with notauli and medial sulcus, axillae meeting anterior to scutellum or separated by prescutellar impression. Propodeum areolate. Forewing with costal space moderate to wide; vein C and pterostigma present; basal sections of RS and M subequal in length, not continuously aligned (not forming smooth basal vein); marginal cell closed, wide (not triangular), moderately short to moderately long; cells 2rm and/or 3rm closed; cell 1mcu closed, small, distant from 2rm (by at least 0.7× length of
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cu); cell 2mcu open (at most delimited by spectral
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cu crossvein); 1cua antefurcal. Hind wing with no posterobasal lobe; with 4 or 5 distal hamuli; basal cell (1rm) closed; free apex of RS stub-like, short; free apices of M and Cu short or absent, that of A absent. Legs unmodified, with trochantelli, spurs 1-2- 2, tarsomeres 5-5-5, claws with preapical tooth. Metasoma rather short, compact, not much sculptured, attached low on propodeum, with first segment forming small articulatory ring, second segment the longest, apical sternum of female elongate, nearly reaching metasomal apex. Ovipositor external but not long, sheaths shorter than metasoma, not fitting tightly to ovipositor (often preserved loose).
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Genera included:
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(
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genus) from the Santonian of northern Siberia;
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Rasnitsyn &amp; Jarzembowski, 2000
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(=
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, nom. preocc.) from the Barremian of the Weald Clay (southern
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);
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Perrichot, Nel &amp; Néradeau, 2004
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from the Albian of southwestern
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(based on their figures and description), and the three new genera described below from the Turonian of
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, all mid- and late Cretaceous in age. The undescribed fossil from the Albian Álava amber in
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(misidentified as
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in
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Delclòs
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2007
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, fig. 4F) also belongs here. Furthermore, based on the available characters, the incompletely preserved
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Rasnitsyn, 1977
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from the Cenomanian of northern Siberia (Rasnitsyn 1977) also may be a member of
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. Its asymmetrical mandibles with 3 and 4 teeth are more characteristic of
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, but the venation as far as is known is more typical of
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. Unfortunately, the metasomal base is insufficiently preserved to reveal the presence or absence of a small ring-like basal segment. If a genus of
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,
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can be distinguished from the other genera in having both 2rm and 3rm cells enclosed (the former not petiolate) and in its slender stature.
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Taxonomic position: The small ring-like first metasomal segment limits attribution of the family either to the superfamily
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FD49FEF9FD5D017D" box="[698,730,318,342]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">s.l.</emphasis>
(including Ceraphronoidea
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) or to the infraorder
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; this is additionally supported by the low metasomal articulation (excluding Evanioidea), distinct costal space (excluding Ichneumonoidea) and external ovipositor (excluding Aculeata). The wide, but not triangular, marginal cell excludes
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, which additionally differs in having either the hind wing with no enclosed cells (all but
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), or a normal (not ringlike) first metasomal segment (
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). In the superfamily
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FBDBFE39FBCF023D" box="[1064,1096,510,534]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">s.l.</emphasis>
, only the families forming the Ceraphronoidea
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, viz., extant
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and
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and extinct (Cretaceous)
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Stigmaphronidae (
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)
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, are similar in having the first metasomal segment small and ring-like. All of those differ, however, in having the wing venation far more reduced (with no veins preserved beyond R and no enclosed cells), two foretibial spurs, and internal ovipositor. Of the remaining stephanoid families,
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is most similar (except in the form of the first metasomal segment) to
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(except that the latter has the forewing with cell 2rm close to 1mcu and vein
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cu tubular, the ovipositor rudimentary and internalized, and several other modifications related to reproductive biology; see e.g.
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) and
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(particularly to its archaic Mesozoic subfamily
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, sometimes considered as a separate family, e.g., by
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). In comparison with the two subfamilies of
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,
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shares with
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well developed notauli, more complete venation (forewing with 2rm enclosed and M+Cu tubular, hind wing with enclosed cells) and variable flagellomere number (1417 or more, in contrast to always
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Megalyrinae;
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). In addition to the form of the first metasomal segment,
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differs from all
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in having the 1cua crossvein antefurcal.Although
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is generally most similar to
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and particularly to
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, all the similarities are of a plesiomorphic nature, while its own putative synapomorphies, and particularly the form of the first metasomal segment, link it to the Ceraphronoidea
<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FCFFFBB8FCBC04BC" box="[780,827,1151,1175]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">s.str</emphasis>
. That is why we consider
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as forming a morphological and possibly phylogenetic transition between
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and Ceraphronoidea
<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FDC7FB78FDEF04FC" box="[564,616,1215,1239]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">s.str.</emphasis>
</paragraph>
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<subSubSection id="17CCA1A28A08FFCFFF63FB29FCCE046C" lastPageId="4" lastPageNumber="194" pageId="3" pageNumber="193" type="discussion">
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Remarks:
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, 1990, 2007; see also
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) synonymised
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(based on
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FE47FAC8FDB6050C" box="[436,561,1295,1319]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Maimetsha</emphasis>
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only) under
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: Dinapsini. His only positive arguments were that “
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FE1FFAE8FDEF056C" box="[492,616,1327,1351]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Maimetsha</emphasis>
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is characterized as having a more reduced pattern of forewing venation (
<bibRefCitation id="3B478FD88A08FFC8FE2CFA89FD15054C" author="RASNITSYN, A. P." box="[479,658,1358,1383]" pageId="3" pageNumber="193" pagination="1 - 134" refId="ref6480" refString="RASNITSYN, A. P. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of the Mesozoic [Vysshie pereponchatokrylye mezozoya]. Transactions of the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences [Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta Akademii nauk SSSR] 147: 1 - 134. (in Russian)" type="journal article" year="1975">Rasnitsyn 1975</bibRefCitation>
), which is in fact very similar to that of some modern megalyrids, such as
<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FDFAFAA8FD0B05AC" box="[521,652,1391,1415]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Ettschellsia</emphasis>
. In particular,
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FCD8FAA8FC2005AC" box="[811,935,1391,1415]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Maimetsha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
has Rs curving towards the wing margin to form a short radial cell, very similar to the short radial cell that characterizes the
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FE61FA68FE7005EC" box="[402,503,1455,1479]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Dinapsis</emphasis>
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+
<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FDF4FA68FD0B05EC" box="[519,652,1455,1479]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Ettschellsia</emphasis>
lineage of dinapsine megalyrids. This indicates that
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FEDAFA08FE2205CC" box="[297,421,1487,1511]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Maimetsha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
should be classified in the
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. … In
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A08FFC8FC58FA08FBA005CC" box="[939,1063,1487,1511]" italics="true" pageId="3" pageNumber="193">Maimetsha</emphasis>
</taxonomicName>
the Rs of the hindwing is reduced to a short stub (
<bibRefCitation id="3B478FD88A08FFC8FD77FA29FCB1062C" author="RASNITSYN, A. P." box="[644,822,1518,1543]" pageId="3" pageNumber="193" pagination="1 - 134" refId="ref6480" refString="RASNITSYN, A. P. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of the Mesozoic [Vysshie pereponchatokrylye mezozoya]. Transactions of the Paleontological Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences [Trudy Paleontologicheskogo instituta Akademii nauk SSSR] 147: 1 - 134. (in Russian)" type="journal article" year="1975">Rasnitsyn 1975</bibRefCitation>
); therefore, the genus can be assigned to the Dinapsinae [later Dinapsini] on the basis of this character.” (
<bibRefCitation id="3B478FD88A08FFC8FBE3F9C9FE87066C" author="SHAW, S. R." pageId="3" pageNumber="193" pagination="101 - 113" refId="ref6839" refString="SHAW, S. R. 1988. Carminator, a new genus of Megalyridae (Hymenoptera) from the Oriental and Australian regions, with a commentary on the definition of the family. Systematic Entomology 13: 101 - 113." type="journal article" year="1988">Shaw 1988: 109</bibRefCitation>
). Both observations are correct but not very convincing because both characters represent a part of the miniaturization syndrome. This is a set of modifications resulting in the formation of a wide vein-free zone along the outer and posterior margins of the functional wing (joined fore- and hind wings in the case of the hymenopterons) which commonly accompanies evolutionary reduction of body size in winged insects (Rasnitsyn 1980). Both characters emphasised by Shaw (1990) as placing
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in Dinapsini (his characters 9 and 10) appear to us as possibly wrongly polarised, with the putative derived states involving development of veins otherwise lost; if so, the shared states would be symplesiomorphies. Opposed to these is a set of characters implying a possible sister-group relationship between
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and Megalyrinae (=
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excluding
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). This set includes a number of synapomorphies of Megalyrinae for characters which are plesiomorphic in
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, e.g., the head with subocular groove (absence of the groove demonstrated in
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(
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, fig. 87a, c, d), in
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(
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Perrichot
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, fig. 2), and inferred in the new taxa described below), reduced and stabilized number of flagellomeres (12) (variable in
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), lost notauli (present in
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), forewing with M+Cu lost as a tubular vein and 2rm and 3rm both lost (M+Cu tubular, 2rm and 3rm present in ground plan and never both lost in
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), and hind wing with M+Cu and A lost and no closed cells (M+Cu and A present, and cells rm and cua closed in
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). Furthermore, there is a potential synapomorphy of
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and Ceraphronoidea
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. in having the first metasomal segment reduced to a small articulatory ring (best described by
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, and visible in their photo, fig. 1B) (not so modified in
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<emphasis id="6DA22E3B8A0FFFCFFD8EFCE9FD1A036D" box="[637,669,814,838]" italics="true" pageId="4" pageNumber="194">s.l.</emphasis>
). This makes the proposal by
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, 1990) to synonymise
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under Dinapsini in
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. inappropriate. Shaws (1990) cladistic analysis included only characters relevant to his concept of
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(incidentally, there are three errors in his coding for
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, which should be 100?002021?12?0??212). If the matrix were expanded in taxa and characters to include
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and Ceraphronoidea, as well as the other genera now assigned to
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, we are confident that the results would differ; such an analysis is beyond the scope of this paper, however. Meanwhile, we prefer to retain
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as a family in its own right, for the reasons outlined above.
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