Synopsis of the fossil Scleroderminae (Hymenoptera, Bethylidae) with description of a new genus and four new species from Baltic amber

ABSTRACT

A synopsis of the fossil flat wasps sclerodermine is provided. Four new species and one new genus from Baltic amber are described and illustrated, Archaeonoxus Colombo and Azevedo gen. nov., Archaeonoxus scintillatus Colombo and Azevedo sp. nov., Allobethylus bei Colombo and Azevedo sp. nov., Glenosema electrum Colombo and Azevedo sp. nov., and Nothepyris pretiosus Colombo and Azevedo sp. nov.

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KEYWORDS:

• Aculeata
• amber
• Chrysidoidea
• taxonomy

Acknowledgments

The authors are sincerely grateful to Subject Editor Dr. Dyke, anonymous reviewers, and to Marius Veta (Palanga, Lithuania) for permission to use his photographs of Allobethylus, and Felipe Bertholdi Fraga for taking pictures of the new genus. We also thank Alexander P. Rasnitsyn for the loan of the amber pieces and for reading the text.

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Funding

WDC was supported with a Ph.D. bursary of Demanda Social by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior); COA was supported with a bursary by CNPq (Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico), grant # 303748/2018-4; and Instituto Nacional de Ciência e Tecnologia dos Hymenoptera Parasitoides (FAPESP Proc. 2014/50940-2 and CNPq Proc. 465562/2014-0), which provided a technician bursary to FBF;Demanda Social by CAPES (Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior) [Finance Code 001];