Diverse stigmaphronid wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea: Stigmaphronidae)

Cretaceous Research

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 762-773

  Ortega Blanco, Jaime ^a   Delclòs, Xavier ^a   Engel, Michael S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Albian; Amber; Apocrita; Ceraphronoidea; Hymenoptera; Mesozoic

Indexed keywords

AMBER; CRETACEOUS; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; TAPHONOMY; TAXONOMY; WASP;

SPAIN;

APOCRITA; CERAPHRONOIDEA; HIPPOCOON; HYMENOPTERA; STIGMAPHRONIDAE;

EID: 80051794593     PISSN: 01956671     EISSN: 1095998X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cretres.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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