The first Cretaceous sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera, Sclerogibbidae)

Title Variants

Alternative: Amber Sclerogibbidae

Related Titles

Series: American Museum novitates, no. 3515

By

Engel, Michael S.

Grimaldi, David A.

Type

Book

Material

Published material

Publication info

New York, NY American Museum of Natural History c2006

Notes

Title from caption.

"May 17, 2006."

"Sclerogibbodes embioleia, new genus and species, is described from a female preserved in early Cretaceous (Neocomian) amber from Lebanon. The genus is sister to all other members of the Sclerogibbidae and is therefore placed in a monogeneric subfamily, Sclerogibbodinae, new subfamily. Sclerogibbids are obligate parasitoids of webspinners (order Embiodea = Embiidina, Embioptera), and thus the recovery of this lineage from Lebanese amber implies that webspinners were perhaps also present in the paleofauna"--P. [1].

Subjects

Amber fossils , Classification , Cretaceous , Embioptera , Insects, Fossil , Lebanon , Lebanon. , Paleontology , Parasites , Sclerogibbidae , Sclerogibbodes embioleia , Wasps, Fossil

Call Number

QL1 .A436 no.3515, 2006

Language

English

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1206/0003-0082(2006)3515[1:TFCSWH]2.0.CO;2
OCLC: 68967618