The first Cretaceous sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) ; American Museum novitates : no. 3515

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The first Cretaceous sclerogibbid wasp (Hymenoptera: Sclerogibbidae) ; American Museum novitates : no. 3515

Engel, Michael S.; Grimaldi, David A.
URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5792
Date: 2006

Abstract:

"Sclerogibbodes embioleia, new genus and species, is described from a female preserved in early Cretaceous (Neocomian) amber from Lebanon. The genus is sister to all other members of the Sclerogibbidae and is therefore placed in a monogeneric subfamily, Sclerogibbodinae, new subfamily. Sclerogibbids are obligate parasitoids of webspinners (order Embiodea = Embiidina, Embioptera), and thus the recovery of this lineage from Lebanese amber implies that webspinners were perhaps also present in the paleofauna"--P. [1].

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    Novitates (Latin for "new acquaintances"), published continuously and numbered consecutively since 1921, are short papers that contain descriptions of new forms and reports in zoology, paleontology, and geology. New numbers are published at irregular intervals.

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