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The fossil record of Darwin wasps (  Ichneumonidae  ) is extremely understudied relative to their enormous extant diversity, with only around 300 species described. Moreover, the taxonomic placement of many of the fossils is based on an outdated classification system. We here revise 18 ichneumonid fossils, all described before the most comprehensive revision of ichneumonid classification by Henry Townes. After a careful reinterpretation of character evidence, we leave the original placement of only five fossils, while expressing uncertainty about the placement of two of them,   Pimpla   ?   seyrigi   Theobald and   Polysphincta   ?   inundata   Brues, by following the principles of open nomenclature. In addition, we move    Parapimpla   rhenana    Theobald, 1937  stat. rev.  from   Pimplinae   to   Ctenopelmatinae  . We describe a new phygadeuontine genus to accommodate two fossils previously described in   Pimplinae  ,    Armadilleon   morticinus    (Brues)  gen. et comb. nov.  and    A.   petrorum    (Brues)  gen. et comb. nov.  Finally, we change the genus and, almost always, the subfamily placement for ten fossils:   Hallocinetus   ?   arvernus   (Piton)  comb. nov. ,   Dimophora   ?   longicornis   (Theobald)  comb. nov. ,   Dimophora   ?   wickhami   (Cockerell)  comb. nov. ,   Lycorina   ?   indura   (Theobald)  comb. nov. ,   Acerataspis   ?   revelata   (Brues)  comb. nov. ,   Hypsicera   ?   solidata   (Brues)  comb. nov. ,   Orthocentrus   ?   mortuaria   (Brues)  comb. nov. ,    Zagryphus   tilloyi    (Theobald)  comb. nov. ,    Lithoserix   antiquus    (Saussure)  comb. nov.  and   Monoblastus   ?   senilis   (Brues)  comb. nov.  Our revision highlights the need for the re-interpretation of perhaps a majority of ichneumonid fossils and for widely adopting the open nomenclature framework. This framework allows uncertainty in fossil classification to be expressed in an intuitive and explicit manner, which contributes to alleviating misinterpretation of the palaeontological literature, for instance in phylogenetic dating studies.

﻿Revision of 18 ichneumonid fossil species ( Hymenoptera , Ichneumonidae ) highlights the need for open nomenclature in palaeontology

Revision of 18 ichneumonid fossil species ( Hymenoptera , Ichneumonidae ) highlights the need for open nomenclature in palaeontology