Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics

Journal of Insect Biodiversity and Systematics

A new species of Vectevania Cockerell, 1922 (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae: Aulacinae) from late Eocene Rovno amber

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Authors
Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn 1, 2
Evgeny E. Perkovsky 3
1 Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123 Profsoyuznaya Street, Moscow 117647, Russia
2 Natural History Museum, London SW7 5BD, UK
3 Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark
10.48311/jibs.12.04.849
Abstract
Vectevania rovno sp. nov. is described based on an incomplete inclusion in late Eocene Rovno amber. It is the second species of Vectevania. The other, Vectevania vetula Cockerell, 1922, was described in the roughly coeval Bembridge Marls of the Isle of Wight (southern England). Vectevania is attributed to the evanioid family Gasteruptiidae and subfamily Aulacinae. Its triangular forewing cell 1mcu is unique in the Aulacinae, with both 1-M and cu-a entering its narrow end. Gasteruptiidae is the 24th hymenopteran family determined to the species level from Rovno amber fauna.

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A new species of Vectevania Cockerell, 1922 (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae: Aulacinae) from late Eocene Rovno amber
Keywords
Fossil insects
Evanioidea
Priabonian
Bembridge Marls
Subjects
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