The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

Michael S. Engel; Diying Huang; Dany Azar; André Nel; Steven R. Davis; Mabel Alvarado; Laura C.V. Breitkreuz

doi:10.1016/j.crpv.2014.11.002

The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

Michael S. Engel, Diying Huang, Dany Azar, André Nel, Steven R. Davis, Mabel Alvarado, Laura C.V. Breitkreuz

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Abstract

The extinct parasitoid wasp family Spathiopterygidae is recorded for the first time from the mid-Cretaceous amber deposits of northern Myanmar, often referred to as Burmese amber. The family was previously known only from three species in Spanish (Albian) and New Jersey (Turonian) ambers, representing an otherwise western Eurasia/eastern North America distribution. The discovery of a new genus and species, Diaspathion ortegai Engel and Huang, gen. et sp. nov., reveals a novel combination of traits seemingly intermediary between the Albian and Turonian taxa. Comparisons are made between the known species and a revised key to genera is provided, along with some general remarks about challenges facing the study of fossil parasitoid wasps.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	95-100
Number of pages	6
Journal	Comptes Rendus - Palevol
Volume	14
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crpv.2014.11.002
State	Published - 1 Feb 2015

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We are thankful to Ryan C. McKellar and Vincent Perrichot for their helpful comments on an early draft of the manuscript. HDY would like to thank the National Basic Research Program of China ( 2012CB821903 ), Outstanding Youth Foundation of Jiangsu Province ( BK 2012049 ), and the National Natural Science Foundation of China ( 91114201 ) for financial support. This is a contribution of the Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum, and to the team project, “Biodiversity: Origin, Structure, Evolution and Geology” granted to DA by the Lebanese University.

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Keywords

Burmese
Euhymenoptera
Insecta
Mesozoic
Spathiopterygidae
Taxonomy

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The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

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