New Serphitidae and Gallorommatidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Microprocta) in the Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber

Abstract

Three new serphitids (Microserphites libanensis sp. nov., Leptoserphites pabloi gen. et sp. nov. and Leptoserphites iriae gen. et sp. nov.) and a gallorommatid (Cretaceomma libanensis gen. et sp. nov.) from two different outcrops from the lower Barremian Lebanese amber are characterised, described, illustrated and their taxonomic positions are discussed. These serphitids and gallorommatid constitute the earliest records of these Cretaceous fossil families. Galloromma turolensis Ortega et al., 2011 is transferred to the genus Cretaceomma gen. nov.

Mymarommatidae, new family and superfamily of parasitoid wasps for Corsica (Hymenoptera, Mymarommatoidea)

“…The superfamily Mymarommatoidea is comprised of tiny parasitoid wasps with representatives along all continents except Antarctica (Gibson et al, 2007;Honsberger et al, 2022). This superfamily contains 40 described species, of which 21 are known only from fossils (Cretaceous, Eocene, and Pliocene ambers), the oldest one dating back to about 125 million years ago (Rasnitsyn et al, 2022). Several phylogenetic analyses indicate that Mymarommatoidea are monophyletic and very likely the sister group of Chalcidoidea (Gibson et al, 1999;Heraty et al, 2013;Blaimer et al, 2023).…”