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A new, putatively primitive Cretaceous fossil braconid subfamily from New Jersey amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae)
Author(s) -
Basibuyuk Hasan H.,
Rasnitsyn Alexandr P.,
Van Achterberg Kees,
Fitton Mike G.,
Quicke Donald L. J.
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
zoologica scripta
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.204
H-Index - 64
eISSN - 1463-6409
pISSN - 0300-3256
DOI - 10.1046/j.1463-6409.1999.00006.x
Subject(s) - subfamily , biology , braconidae , hymenoptera , cretaceous , zoology , extant taxon , paleontology , evolutionary biology , parasitoid , gene , biochemistry
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.