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ABSTRACT:
SUBMITTER: Perrichot V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4137294 | biostudies-literature | 2014
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
ZooKeys 20140617 426
A new species of the scelionine genus Macroteleia Westwood (Platygastridae s.l., Scelioninae) is described and figured from a female beautifully preserved in Middle Miocene amber from Peru. Macroteleia yaguarum Perrichot & Engel, sp. n., shows a unique combination of characters otherwise seen independently within its congeners. It is most similar to the modern M. surfacei Brues, but differs from it by the non-foveolate notauli, the contiguous punctures of the vertex, and the continuous propodeum ...[more]