New ceraphronoid wasps in Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers from Lebanon, New Jersey, and India (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea)
New parasitoid wasps of the superfamily Ceraphronoidea are systematically described and figured in various Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers, ranging in age from Barremian (Early Cretaceous) to Ypresian (early Eocene). A new family, putatively a stem group to Megaspilidae + Ceraphronidae, is described from a single female in Barremian amber from Lebanon. Ceospilidae n. fam., currently including only the type genus and species — Ceospilus phoenicius n. gen., n. sp. — are distinguished from other ceraphronoids. Two new species of Megaspilidae are described: Conostigmus novacaesarea n. sp. from the Turonian amber of New Jersey, USA and Dendrocerus ypresicus n. sp. from the Ypresian amber of Gujarat, India.
Institutions
- American Museum of Natural History (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Palaeoworld
- Published
- 2025-07-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.palwor.2025.200993
- Primary Topic
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Type
- article
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