Two New Genera and One Family Fewer of Fossil Platygastroidea (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupomorpha)
Two new genera and three new species of Sparasionidae (Hymenoptera) in Burmese amber are described and differentiated from other genera in the family: Crypton Talamas, Popovici, Shih and Ren, new genus; Crypton cleopatrae Talamas, Shih and Ren, new species; Torulon Talamas, Popovici, Shih and Ren, new genus; T. croca Talamas, Popovici, Shih and Ren, new species; T. elongatum Talamas, Popovici, Shih and Ren, new species. Caradiophyodidae is removed from Platygastroidea and treated as a family incertae sedis, revised status. The sole species in this family, Caradiophyodus saradae Poinar and Vega is treated as nomen dubium.
Authors
- Chungkun Shih (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3434-2477)
- Dong Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8660-0901)
- Jonathan S. Bremer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4726-6995)
- Zachary J. Lahey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9402-9570)
- Elijah J. Talamas (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1048-6345)
- Huayan Chen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0382-1635)
- Ovidiu Alin Popovici (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5926-2177)
Institutions
- Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services (US)
- National Museum of Natural History (US)
- Alexandru Ioan Cuza University (RO)
- South China Botanical Garden (CN)
- Florida State Collection of Arthropods (US)
- Capital Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington
- Published
- 2026-10-26
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.4289/0013-8797.128.3.311
- Primary Topic
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00