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

By

Engel, Michael S.
Thomas, Jennifer C.
Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2017

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

711

Pages

103-111

Subjects

Apocrita , Euhymenoptera , Ichneumonoidea , parasitoid , taxonomy , Turonian

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.711.20709

 

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.