A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae).

ABSTRACT: A second species of protorhyssaline wasps (Braconidae) is described and figured from inclusions in Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) amber of the Raritan Formation in New Jersey, USA. Rhetinorhyssalites emersoni, gen. n., sp. n., is distinguished from other protorhyssalines, particularly the contemporaneous Protorhyssalus goldmani.

SUBMITTER: Engel MS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5674186 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature