A primitive aphidiine wasp in albian amber from spain and a northern hemisphere origin for the subfamily (Hymenoptera: Braconidae: Aphidiinae)

Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society

Volumn 82, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 273-282

  Ortega Blanco, Jaime ^a   Bennett, Daniel J ^b   Delclos, Xavier ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Albian; Amber; Braconidae; Ichneumonoidea; Paleontology; Spain; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ALBIAN; AMBER; FOSSIL RECORD; MICROPALEONTOLOGY; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; WASP;

SPAIN;

APHIDIINAE; BRACONIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; ICHNEUMONOIDEA;

EID: 72449200127     PISSN: 00228567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2317/JKES0812.08.1     Document Type: Article

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