A ceraphronid wasp in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae)

Engel, Michael S.

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“…Examples of such localized extinctions include (this list is by no means exhaustive but merely highlights examples across the phylogenetic spectrum of Insecta) bristletails of the genus Trinemurodes Silvestri (Sturm & Mendes, 1998) Brothers & Janzen, 1999;van Achterberg, 2001;Engel, 2002Engel, , 2006Engel, , 2008Engel, , 2009bEngel, , 2013 Antropov & Pulawski, 1996;Bennett & Engel, 2006, 2008; and bees of the genera Chilicola Spinola, Neocorynura Schrottky, Thaumatosoma Smith, Anthophorula Cockerell, and Euglossa Latreille (Engel, 1995(Engel, , 1999a(Engel, , 1999b(Engel, , 1999cEngel et al, 2012), among many other arthropod lineages. To this long list of regional extinctions may be added the genus Clystopsenella, but given how little we know of the true distribution for C. longiventris one might wonder if in time it too shall reveal itself somewhere in the Greater Antilles, much as some lineages first known from amber fossils are later found Engel: Clystopsenella in Dominican amber 2015 11…”

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“…6) underscores the reality that the family is today relict. Furthermore, those available fossils also imply that the paleodiversity documented falls far short of adequately reflecting the true diversity, and there was at one time a greater variety of not only species and genera, but of morphological disparity across the clade (Engel et al, 2013). The relationships suppose a lengthy ghost lineage for the Scolebythinae (Fig.…”

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“…MacLeay (Woodruff, 2009); the histerid genus Trypanaeus Eschscholtz (Chatzimanolis et al, 2006); weevils of the genera Proeces Schönherr, Dryophthorus Germar, and Stenommatus Wollaston (Davis & Engel, 2006; the dustywing genus Spiloconis Enderlein (Meinander, 1998;Engel & Grimaldi, 2007b;Grimaldi et al, 2013a); valeseguyid and carnid flies (Grimaldi, 1991(Grimaldi, , 1997; window flies of the genus Metatrichia Coquillett (Yeates & Grimaldi, 1993); parasitoid wasps of the genera Ophrynopus Konow, Ceraphron Jurine, Masona van Achterberg, Leucospis Fabricius, Leptofoenus Smith, Bocchus Ashmead, Ceratochrysis Cooper, and Pristapenesia Brues (Olmi, 1989;Prentice et al, 1996;Brothers & Janzen, 1999;van Achterberg, 2001;Engel, 2002Engel, , 2006Engel, , 2008Engel, , 2009bEngel, , 2013; fig wasps of the genera Pegoscapus Cameron and Tetrapus Mayr (Peñalver et al, 2006); the ant genera Leptomyrmex Mayr, Azteca Forel, Neivamyrmex Borgmeier, and Paraponera Smith (Baroni Urbani, 1980;Wilson, 1985Wilson, , 1988Baroni Urbani & Wilson, 1987); apoid wasps of the genera Lindenius Lepeletier & Brullé and Pison Spinola (Antropov & Pulawski, 1996;Bennett & Engel, 2006, 2008; and bees of the genera Chilicola Spinola, Neocorynura Schrottky, Thaumatosoma Smith, Anthophorula Cockerell, and Euglossa Latreille (Engel, 1995(Engel, , 1999a(Engel, , 1999b(Engel, , 1999cEngel et al, 2012), among many other arthropod lineages. To this long list of regional extinctions may be added the genus Clystopsenella, but given how little we know of the true distribution for C. longiventris one might wonder if in time it too shall reveal itse...…”

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The wasp genus <i>Clystopsenella</i> in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae)

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2015

Novit. Paleoentomol.

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Abstract. Clystopsenella Clystopsenella longiventris Clystopsenella mirabilisC. longiventris evidence regarding possible host associations or behaviors have been published (e.g., Day, 1977;Evans et al., 1979;Brothers, 1981). Melo (2000) reported that Pristapenesia stricta (Azevedo) developed gregariously as idiobiont parasitoids of anobiid larvae (Bostrichoidea: Anobiidae). In this species, the adult female digs her way into the beetle's tunnels and upon discovering the larva proceeds to sting it and deposit several eggs along the immobilized larva. Once the wasp's larvae eclose, they feed gregariously on the beetle until eventually spinning their pupal cocoons. During the same study, Melo (2000) was able to document sibling mating and noted that this, along with their association with wood-boring beetle hosts, likely confers upon scolebythids an ease for becoming adventive. Indeed, accidental introduction had already been suggested as a possible explanation for the widely disjunct occurrences of Ycaploca evansi Nagy (Naumann, 1990). Ycaploca evansi has been assumed to develop on larvae of Cerambycidae (Day, 1977;Brothers, 1981), while Scolebythus madecassus Evans was found in presumed beetle burrows in rotting wood (Evans et al., 1979). Fossil scolebythids significantly outnumber the presently known extant species (Aguiar et al., 2013; Table 1). The first fossil scolebythid, Pristapenesia primaeva Brues, was described as a bethylid (as the family Scolebythidae was not established until several decades later) in Middle Eocene Baltic amber (Brues, 1933). Brues (1933) did not recognize the similarity between Pristapenesia Brues and Clystopsenella Kieffer, the only two scolebythids then known and both placed in Bethylidae. It was not until three decades later that Evans (1963) realized, when describing Scolebythus Evans, the distinctiveness of the group from bethylids, although he did not at that time recognize that P. primaeva belonged to the same lineage. Prentice et al. (1996) also did not realize the proper placement of P. primaeva when they described two fossil scolebythids from Lebanese and Dominican amber. Indeed, it was not until Brothers & Janzen (1999) studied a new series of male and female P. primaeva that the proper placement for this genus was discovered, and that the Dominican amber fossil described by Prentice et al. (1996) was congeneric. In fact, it is now understood that Pristapenesia also includes two of the modern species (Azevedo et al., 2011). Subsequently, scolebythids have been discovered in numerous deposits, virtually all being represented by inclusions in amber with the sole exception of two species from Liaoning, China (Cai et al., 2012). Cretaceous scolebythids have been discussed and described from Barremian Lebanese amber (Prentice et al., 1996;Engel & Grimaldi, 2007a; vide Maksoud et al., 2014, on recent dating of these deposits), Barremian Jordanian amber (Kaddumi, 2005: which appears to be an individual of Zapenesia Engel & Grimaldi), Albian Spanish amber , Turonian New Jersey am...

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The wasp genus <i>Clystopsenella</i> in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae)

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“… Names above the timeline are now considered as Ceraphronoidea, while names below are taxa removed from Ceraphronoidea and considered as incertae sedis (R, Radiophronidae; S, Stigmaphronidae; M, Megapilidae; Ce, Ceraphronidae; references cited on the Figure: Rasnitsyn (1991) ; Engel & Grimaldi (2009) ; Ortega-Blanco, Delclòs & Engel (2011) , Ortega-Blanco, Rasnitsyn & Delclós (2010) ; Muesebeck (1963) ; Kozlov (1975) ; McKellar & Engel (2011) ; Brues (1937) ; Alekseev & Rasnitsyn (1981) ; Alekseev (1995) ; Brues (1940) ; Szabó & Oehlke (1986) ; Dessart (1977) ; Engel (2013) ; Pealver & Engel (2006) . …”

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A new megaspilid wasp from Eocene Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), with notes on two non-ceraphronoid families: Radiophronidae and Stigmaphronidae

István

Kamp

Trietsch

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Ceraphronoids are some of the most commonly collected hymenopterans, yet they remain rare in the fossil record. Conostigmus talamasi Mikó and Trietsch, sp. nov. from Baltic amber represents an intermediate form between the type genus, Megaspilus, and one of the most species-rich megaspilid genera, Conostigmus. We describe the new species using 3D data collected with synchrotron-based micro-CT equipment. This non-invasive technique allows for quick data collection in unusually high resolution, revealing morphological traits that are otherwise obscured by the amber. In describing this new species, we revise the diagnostic characters for Ceraphronoidea and discuss possible reasons why minute wasps with a pterostigma are often misidentified as ceraphronoids. Based on the lack of ceraphronoid characteristics, we remove Dendrocerus dubitatus Brues, 1937, Stigmaphronidae, and Radiophronidae from Ceraphronoidea and consider them as incertae sedis. We also provide some guidance for their future classification.

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“…data;Engel and Grimaldi, 2007;OrtegaBlanco et al, 2011b;Schlüter, 1978); Stigmaphronidae are documented in Spanish, Burmese, New Jersey, Canadian, Siberian, and Alaskan resins (Engel and Grimaldi, 2009;Engel, 2011b, 2012;Muesebeck, 1963;Ortega-Blanco et al, 2011c), and some Berriasian-to Aptian-aged compressions from Siberia and Mongolia, respectively (Rasnitsyn, 1991); while Alavarommatidae and Radiophronidae are presently recorded only from Spain (Ortega-Blanco et al, 2010. Fossils of the living families Mymarommatidae, Megapsilidae, and Ceraphronidae are known largely from the Tertiary (Alekseev, 1995;Brues, 1940;Engel, 2013;Gibson et al, 2007;OrtegaBlanco et al, 2011b;Peñalver and Engel, 2006;Szabó and Oehlke, 1986), with a few Late Cretaceous records of megaspilids (Alekseev and Rasnitsyn, 1981;Engel, unpubl. data;McKellar and Engel, 2011b;Perrichot, pers.…”

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The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

Engel

Huang

Azar

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Comptes Rendus Palevol

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A ceraphronid wasp in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae)

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The wasp genus <i>Clystopsenella</i> in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae)

The wasp genus <i>Clystopsenella</i> in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae)

A new megaspilid wasp from Eocene Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea), with notes on two non-ceraphronoid families: Radiophronidae and Stigmaphronidae

The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea)

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