Engel, Michael S.Grimaldi, David A.2006-05-232006-05-232006http://hdl.handle.net/2246/5792Includes bibliographical references (p. 6-7).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.491139 bytesapplication/pdfen-USQL1 .A436 no.3515 2006Sclerogibbodes embioleia.Sclerogibbidae -- Classification.Embioptera -- Parasites -- Lebanon.Wasps, Fossil -- Lebanon.Insects, Fossil -- Lebanon.Amber fossils -- Lebanon.Paleontology -- Cretaceous -- Lebanon.Paleontology -- Lebanontext