A new genus and species of pemphredonine wasp in Late Cretaceous Vendean amber (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)

Authors

  • Daniel J. Bennett Department of Biology, Stephen F. Austin State University, P.O. Box 13003, SFA Station, Nacogdoches, Texas, 75962-3003, USA
  • Vincent Perrichot CNRS UMR 6118 Géosciences & Observatoire des Sciences de l’Univers de Rennes, Université Rennes 1, 263 avenue du Général Leclerc, 35042 Rennes, France; University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology)
  • Michael S. Engel University of Kansas Biodiversity Institute, Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology); Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, Lawrence, Kansas 66045, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15989

Abstract

A new genus and species of pemphredonine wasp is described and figured in Late Cretaceous (Cenomanian to Santonian) amber from Vendée, in northwestern France. Menopsila dupeae n. gen. and sp., is based on a partial male preserved in a small sliver of translucent amber. The genus is placed incertae sedis within the Pemphredonini, as it intermingles features, likely plesiomorphies, of various lineages within the tribe. It likely represents a stem group to one or more of the constituent subtribes, yet it is arguably most similar to the Spilomenina.

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2014-12-01

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No. 10 (2014)

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Copyright (c) 2014 Daniel J. Bennett, Vincent Perrichot, Michael S. Engel

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Bennett, Daniel J., Vincent Perrichot, and Michael S. Engel. 2014. “A New Genus and Species of Pemphredonine Wasp in Late Cretaceous Vendean Amber (Hymenoptera: Crabronidae)”. Paleontological Contributions, no. 10 (December): 41-45. https://doi.org/10.17161/PC.1808.15989.