Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber

Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) in Canadian Late Cretaceous amber

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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 Rugs 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 Siemens HM656GNS6B iQ700 Wifi Connected Built In Electric Single Oven 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.