Journal
CRETACEOUS RESEARCH
Volume 46, Issue -, Pages 31-42Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2013.09.003
Keywords
Aculeata; Albian; Campanian; Amber; Chrysidoidea; Mesozoic; Taxonomy
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- U.S. National Science Foundation [EF-0341724, DEB-0542909]
- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
- NSERC
- Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion of Spain
- Ministerio de Economia y Competitividad
- Fulbright Espana
- FECYT (Fundacion Espanola para la Ciencia y la Tecnologia)
- Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [CGL2011-23948/BTE]
- Division of Entomology, University of Kansas Natural History Museum [CGL2011-23948/BTE]
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Three new genera and species of scolebythid wasps (Aculeata: Chrysidoidea) are described and figured from Cretaceous amber. Ectenobythus iberiensis gen. et sp. nov. is described from a female and putative male in Early Cretaceous (Albian) amber from the Penacerrada I outcrop, Spain, while Necrobythus pulcher gen. et sp. nov. and Sphakelobythus limnopous gen. et sp. nov. are described from one putative male and two females in Late Cretaceous (Campanian) amber from Grassy Lake, Alberta, Canada. The new taxa are described and compared to related Cretaceous genera of Scolebythidae and coded for cladistic analysis with the full diversity of living and extinct species in the family. The resulting phylogeny supports the division of the family into two subfamilies (recognized informally by earlier authors), Scolebythinae Evans and Pristapenesiinae subfam. nov. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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