The first sclerodermine and pristocerine flat wasps in Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae)
Institution:
Institut de systématique, évolution, biodiversité, ISYEB, UMR 7205, CNRS, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’histoire naturelle (MNHN), Sorbonne Universités, 57, rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, 75005 Paris, France
Abstract:
Two new bethylid wasps, one Scleroderminae Paleosclerodermalamarrei gen. et sp. n. and one Pristocerinae Pristocera alaini sp. n., are described from the Lowermost Eocene amber of Oise (France). Together with the Bethylinae and the three Epyrinae already described from the same amber, they show that this family was already very diverse during the Lower Paleogene.