A new, putatively primitive Cretaceous fossil braconid subfamily from New Jersey amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) |
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| Authors: | Hasan H. Basibuyuk Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn Kees Van Achterberg Mike G. Fitton Donald L. J. Quicke |
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| Affiliation: | Unit of Parasitoid Systematics, CABI Bioscience UK Centre (Ascot), Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK., Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK, and Department of Biology, Cumhuriyet University, 58140-Sivas, Turkey. E-mail:; Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647 Moscow, Russia.; Nationaal Natuurhistorisch Museum, Postbus 9517, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands.; Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK.; Unit of Parasitoid Systematics, CABI Bioscience UK Centre (Ascot), Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire SL5 7PY, UK, and Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD, UK. |
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| Abstract: | Protorhyssalus goldmani gen. n., sp. n., in a new subfamily of braconid wasps, the Protorhyssalinae, is described from Late Cretaceous amber fossils from New Jersey, USA. The Protorhyssalinae appears to be cyclostome and shows a similar set of plesiomorphic characters to the extant Rhyssalinae. However, it possesses hindwing vein 2-CU, a feature only found among the cyclostome braconids in the rare and putatively primitive Chilean subfamily Apozyginae. |
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