A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

Michael S Engel; Jennifer C Thomas; Abdulaziz S Alqarni

doi:10.3897/zookeys.711.20709

A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

Zookeys. 2017 Oct 23:(711):103-111. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.711.20709. eCollection 2017.

Authors

Michael S Engel^{1

2

3}, Jennifer C Thomas¹, Abdulaziz S Alqarni⁴

Affiliations

¹ Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045-4415, USA.
² Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA.
³ Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, New York 10024-5192, USA.
⁴ Department of Plant Protection, College of Food and Agriculture Sciences, King Saud University, P.O. Box 2460, Riyadh 11451, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

Abstract

A second species of protorhyssaline wasps (Braconidae) is described and figured from inclusions in Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) amber of the Raritan Formation in New Jersey, USA. Rhetinorhyssalites emersoni, gen. n., sp. n., is distinguished from other protorhyssalines, particularly the contemporaneous Protorhyssalus goldmani.

Keywords: Apocrita; Ichneumonoidea; Turonian; parasitoid; taxonomy.