Bruescelio platycephalus (lat.) Is a fossil species of hymenopteran riders of the genus Bruescelio from the family Scelionidae . One of the oldest representatives of parasitic hymenoptera . It was found in Cretaceous fossils ( Europe , Spanish terrestrial amber (Álava), Albian tier , Escucha formation, about 110 Ma) [1] .
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Description
Small hymenoptera riders . Body length 0.9 mm, front wing length 0.61 mm. The antennae are 14-segmented, the club consists of 6 segments. Formula of spurs of tibia 1-2-2 [1] . The species Bruescelio platycephalus was first described from amber remains in 2014 by the Spanish entomologist J. Ortega-Blanco ( Jaime Onega-Bianco , Departament d'Estra-tigrafia, Paleontologia i Geociencies Marines, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona , Spain ), Canadian biologist McKellar ( Ryan C. McKellar , Department of Earth & Atmospheric Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton , Canada ), and American paleoentomologist Michael Engel ( MS Engel , Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History , New York ; and Division of Entomology , Paleoentomology, Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas , Lawrence , Kansas , USA ) with species such as Proteroscelio psis masneri , Tithonoscelio resinalis and others. It is included in a separate monotypic genus Bruescelio , which was named after the American entomologist Charles Thomas Bruce ( Charles T. Brues , 1879–1955), who described the first Cretaceous representative platigastroid and the genus Scelio [1] [2] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 J. Ortega-Blanco, RC McKellar, and MS Engel. Diverse scelionid wasps from Early Cretaceous Álava amber, Spain (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea) (Eng.) // Bulletin of Geosciences: Journal. - Prague : Czech Geological Survey, 2014. - Vol. 89. - P. 553-571. - ISSN 1214-1119 .
- ↑ paleobiodb.org: † Bruescelio platycephalus Ortega-Blanco et al. 2014 (wasp) .
Literature
- Rasnitsyn A.P. Higher hymenoptera of the Mesozoic. - Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences . - M .: Nauka, 1975 .-- T. 147. - 132 p.
- Rasnitsyn A.P. Origin and evolution of Hymenoptera insects. - Proceedings of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR Academy of Sciences . - M .: Nauka, 1980 .-- T. 174. - 190 p.
- Rasnitsyn, AP and Quicke, DLJ History of Insects . - Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 .-- 517 p. - ISBN 1-4020-0026-X .