First record of the genus Phanerotomella (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Baltic amber with the description of a new species

Rebecca N Kittel

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.11

First record of the genus Phanerotomella (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) from Baltic amber with the description of a new species

Zootaxa. 2018 Sep 17;4482(1):197-200. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.11.

Author

Rebecca N Kittel¹

Affiliation

¹ Australian Centre for Evolutionary Biology and Biodiversity, and School of Biological Sciences, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA 5005, Australia Laboratory of Insect Biodiversity and Ecosystems Science, Graduate School of Agricultural Science, Kobe University, Rokkodai 1-1, Nada, Kobe, 657-8501, Japan Current address: Museum Wiesbaden, Hessisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Natur, Friedrich-Ebert-Allee 2, 65185 Wiesbaden, Germany.. rebecca.n.kittel@gmail.com.

PMID: 30313330
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4482.1.11

Abstract

A new but exinct chelonine wasp species, Phanerotomella brevivena Kittel sp. nov. (Braconidae: Cheloninae) of the modern genus Phanerotomella is described from Baltic amber. This new species differs from all other extant Phanerotomella species by having the fore wing vein SR-1 only partially sclerotised. This is the first fossil record of the genus in amber.

Keywords: Hymenoptera, Baltic amber, Cheloninae, parasitoid wasp, new species.

MeSH terms

Amber*
Animals
Baltic States
Fossils*
Wasps*

Substances

Amber