The first twisted-wing parasitoid in Eocene amber from north-eastern China (Strepsiptera: Myrmecolacidae) |
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| Authors: | Bo Wang Michael S Engel |
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| Institution: | 1. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China;2. Division of Entomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology &3. Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA;4. Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, USA |
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| Abstract: | An Early Eocene amber twisted-wing parasitoid (Strepsiptera) is described and figured from the Fushun Coalfield in north-eastern China, representing the first record of this order for the Tertiary of Asia and the second extinct genus of Myrmecolacidae. Kronomyrmecolax fushunicus gen. et sp. nov. is represented by a single male which is distinguished from other living and fossil myrmecolacids, particularly Palaeomyrmecolax Kulicka, in middle Eocene Baltic amber. The genera differ in details of hind wing venation and antennal morphology. |
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| Keywords: | Amber palaeontology parasitoid Strepsiptera Stylopidia taxonomy |
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