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

By

Engel, Michael S.
Huang, Diying
Cai, Chenyang
Alqarni, Abdulaziz S.

Type

Article

Date of Publication

2018

Original Publication

ZooKeys

Volume

730

Pages

75-86

Subjects

Cretaceous , Euhymenoptera , fossil , Ichneumonoidea , Myanmar , parasitoid , taxonomy , wasp

Contributed by

Pensoft Publishers

Language

English

Published by

Sofia, Bulgaria Pensoft Publishers

Identifiers

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.730.22585

 

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.