A new fossil genus in Pamphiliidae (Hymenoptera) from China

Abstract

A new genus with two new species, Scabolyda orientalis gen. et sp. nov. and Scabolyda incompleta sp. nov., assigned to the subfamily Juralydinae in the family Pamphiliidae are described and illustrated. They were collected from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation and the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation in northeastern China. They represent the first fossil pamphiliids described from China.

一新属二新种，Scabolyda orientalis gen. et sp. nov. and sp. nov.，被归为Pamphiliidae科Juralydinae亚科,在此被描述和图示。它们采自中国东北中侏罗世九龙山组和下白垩统义县组,代表了中国首次描述的化石pamphiliids。

Key words:

• Pamphiliidae
• Middle Jurassic
• Early Cretaceous
• Jiulongshan Formation
• Yixian Formation
• China.

Acknowledgements

We sincerely thank the editor Dr Stephen McLoughlin and three reviewers (Dr Lars Vilhelmsen and two anonymous reviewers) for their critical review and constructive suggestions. We thank Taiping Gao for comments and Qiang Yang for specimen preparation. This research was supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program; 2012CB821906), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 31230065, 41272006), Great Wall Scholar and KEY project of the Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (KZ201310028033), Program for Changjiang Scholars and Innovative Research Team in University (IRT13081) and, for APR, by the Presidium RAS Program ‘Origin of biosphere and evolution of the geo-biological system’.