A new lineage of enigmatic diaprioid wasps in Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera, Diaprioidea). (American Museum novitates, no. 3771)

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2013-03-20

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American Museum of Natural History.

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A new family of microhymenopteran wasps is described and figured from three new species discovered in Cretaceous amber of Spain (Albian) and New Jersey (Turonian). Spathiopterygidae Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new family, is allied to the Diapriidae and Maamingidae (Proctotrupomorpha: Diaprioidea), sharing with these families putatively derived features relative to Monomachidae. The family contains three genera and three species, all new: Spathiopteryx alavarommopsis Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new genus and species, and Myamaropsis turolensis Engel and Ortega-Blanco, new genus and species, both from the early Cretaceous (Albian) of Spain, and Spathopria sayrevillensis Engel, Ortega-Blanco, and Grimaldi, new genus and species, from the late Cretaceous (Turonian) of New Jersey. Spathopria sayrevillensis is reconstructed using X-ray synchrotron microtomography. In addition, a peculiar new genus and species, Iberopria perialla Engel, Ortega-Blanco, and Delclòs, of stem-group Diapriidae is described from Spanish amber. The distinctive features and character combinations of these taxa are discussed in connection with possible relationships to the surviving lineages of diaprioids.

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23 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm.

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Spathiopteryx alavarommopsis., Myamaropsis turolensis., Spathopria sayrevillensis., Iberopria perialla., Diapriidae., Diaprioidea., Wasps., Wasps, Fossil., Amber fossils., Spain., New Jersey.

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