A new lineage of braconid wasps in Burmese Cenomanian amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

Michael S Engel; Diying Huang; Chenyang Cai; Abdulaziz S Alqarni

doi:10.3897/zookeys.730.22585

A new lineage of braconid wasps in Burmese Cenomanian amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)

Zookeys. 2018 Jan 17:(730):75-86. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.730.22585. eCollection 2018.

Authors

Michael S Engel^{1

2

3}, Diying Huang⁴, Chenyang Cai⁴, Abdulaziz S Alqarni⁵

Affiliations

¹ Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, 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 State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, People's Republic of China.
⁵ 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 new braconid wasp from the Upper Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of the Hukawng Valley in Kachin State, Myanmar is described and figured from a unique female. Seneciobracon novalatus Engel & Huang, gen. et sp. n., is placed in a distinct subfamily, Seneciobraconinae Engel & Huang, subfam. n., owing to the presence of a unique combination of primitive protorhyssaline-like traits, with an otherwise more derived wing venation. The fossil is discussed in the context of other Cretaceous Braconidae.

Keywords: Cretaceous; Euhymenoptera; Ichneumonoidea; Myanmar; fossil; parasitoid; taxonomy; wasp.