Fossil Microgastrinae taxa
Extinct genera and species of Microgastrinae have been found in Eocene and Oligocene deposits, from 37–44 million years ago (MYA). Many specimens from the Miocene (20–30 MYA) are known from Dominican and Chiapas ambers, but most appear to be undescribed representatives of extant genera (Murphy et al. 2008). Belokobylskij (2014) revised the taxonomic status of all previously known taxa of fossil Microgastrinae and described one new genus as well as two new species. The origin of Microgastrinae has been estimated at ~ 54 MYA (Murphy et al. 2008).
Unlike previous work (Mason 1981, Yu et al. 2005, 2012, 2016), Fernandez-Triana et al. (2020) excluded fossil genera or species from the world checklist. Instead, they tabulate in this section the three genera and 12 species of fossil Microgastrinae currently described.
Extinct genera and species of Microgastrinae, compiled from Yu et al. (2012, 2016) and Belokobylskij (2014).
| Genera only known from fossils | Species only known from fossils |
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Dacnusites Cockerell, 1921 Eocardiochiles Brues, 1933 Palaeomicrogaster Belokobylskij, 2014 |
Apanteles concinnus Statz, 1938 Apanteles macrophthalmus Statz, 1938 Dacnusites reductus Cockerell, 1921 Dacnusites sepultus Cockerell, 1921 Eocardiochiles fritschii Brues, 1933 Microplitis elegans Timon-David, 1944 Microplitis primordialis (Brues, 1906) Microplitis vesperus Brues, 1910 Semionis nixoni Tobias, 1987 Semionis wightensis Belokobylskij, 2014 Snellenius succinalis Brues, 1933 Palaeomicrogaster oculatus Belokobylskij, 2014 |
References:
Belokobylskij SA (2014) Family Braconidae Nees, 1812. In: Antropov AV, Belokobylskij SA, Compton SG, Dlussky GM, Khalaim AI, Kolyada VA, Kozlov MA, Perfilieva KS, Ras¬nitsyn AP (2014). The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104 (3–4): 335–446. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691014000103
Murphy N, Banks JC, Whitfield JB, Austin AD (2008) Phylogeny of the parasitic microgas¬troid subfamilies (Hymenoptera: Braconidae) based on sequence data from seven genes, with an improved time estimate of the origin of the lineage. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 47(1): 378–395. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ympev.2008.01.022