A fossil species of the primitive mymarid genus Borneomymar (Hymenoptera: Mymaridae) in Eocene Baltic amber
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https://doi.org/10.17161/np.v0i5.4651Keywords:
Taxonomy, Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea, Mymaridae, Borneomymar, AmberAbstract
A new fossil species of fairyfly (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea: Mymaridae) is described and figured from a well-preserved female in middle Eocene (Lutetian) Baltic amber as Borneomymar pankowskiorum Engel, McKellar, & Huber, new species. This species represents the fourth genus from Baltic amber whose extant species now occur only in southeastern Asia, Australia and Madagascar.References
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