Fossil Record 16(2): 217-227, doi: 10.1002/mmng.201300011
Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber
expand article infoR. C. McKellar‡, D. S. Kopylov§, M. S. Engel|
‡ Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, USA and Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, 1–26 Earth Sciences Building, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2E3, Canada§ Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997, Russia| Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive – Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66045, United States of America
© R. C. McKellar, D. S. Kopylov, M. S. Engel.
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Citation: McKellar RC, Kopylov DS, Engel MS (2013) Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber. Fossil Record 16(2): 217-227. https://doi.org/10.1002/mmng.201300011
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Abstract
Three new species and two new genera are described within the wasp family Ichneumonidae from Late Cretaceous (Campanian) amber collected at the Grassy Lake locality in Alberta, Canada. New taxa include Pareubaeus rasnitsyni n. gen. et sp. and P. incertus n. sp. within the subfamily Labenopimplinae, and Albertocryptus dossenus n. gen. et sp. within the subfamily Labeninae. The presence of a labenopimpline genus closely related to Eubaeus Townes within Canadian amber further supports faunal similarity between the Canadian assemblage and that recovered from Siberian amber. The records of Labeninae are the first from Mesozoic amber, and demonstrate that the subfamily was present in the Northern Hemisphere in the Late Cretaceous, as opposed to their modern, predominantly austral distribution.

doi:10.1002/mmng.201300011