Title
An apterous scelionid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae)
Date Issued
01 January 2017
Access level
open access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
University of Kansas
Publisher(s)
Elsevier Masson SAS
Abstract
A remarkably specialized parasitoid wasp of the family Scelionidae (Platygastroidea) is described and figured from mid-Cretaceous (Cenomanian) amber of the Hukawng Valley in northern Myanmar. Geoscelio mckellari Engel and Huang, gen. et sp. nov., is unique for its combination of a compact body, 12 antennal flagellomeres, a 1-2-2 tibial spur formula, a distinct malar sulcus, deeply impressed notauli, complete reduction of the wings, and basal crenulae on the metasomal terga and sterna, among many other features, and is placed within a separate tribe, Geoscelionini Engel and Huang, trib. nov. This is the first flightless species of Platygastroidea known from the Mesozoic, and its affinities with other Mesozoic and extant lineages are discussed.
Start page
5
End page
11
Volume
16
Issue
1
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Zoología, Ornitología, Entomología, ciencias biológicas del comportamiento
Ciencia veterinaria
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84966697268
Source
Comptes Rendus - Palevol
ISSN of the container
16310683
DOI of the container
10.1016/j.crpv.2016.03.005
Source funding
Deanship of Scientific Research
U.S. National Science Foundation
King Saud University
Université Libanaise
Fundación Española para la Ciencia y la Tecnología
National Key Research and Development Program of China
Sponsor(s)
Support for this project was provided by the National Basic Research Program of China (2012CB821903) to H.D.-Y.; through collaborative project, “Biodiversity: Origin, Structure, Evolution and Geology” granted by the Lebanese University to D.A.; partially by U.S. National Science Foundation grant (DEB-1144162) to M.S.E.; and through a doctoral fellowship from the Fondo para la Innovación, Ciencia y Tecnología, Peru, to M.A. This work was also supported by the Visiting Professor Program at King Saud University, Deanship of Scientific Research. We are also grateful to two anonymous reviewers for their helpful comments on an earlier version of the manuscript.
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