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New Data on Ichneumon Wasps of the Subfamily Pherhombinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Baltic Amber with Descriptions of Three New Species

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Three new fossil species of the subfamily Pherhombinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) are described from Primorskoe deposit of Eocene Baltic amber (Kaliningrad Province, Russian Federation): Pherhombus kasparyanisp. n., Ph. kraxtepellensissp. n., and Ph. sorgenauensissp. n. An annotated list and a key to the six known species of Pherhombinae are given. The color preservation of ichneumonid inclusions in Baltic amber is discussed, the presence of syninclusions is interpreted, and reconstruction of the species biology is attempted.

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Acknowledgments

I thank D.R. Kasparyan (ZIN) for inestimable help at all the stages of this work, A.P. Rasnitsyn (PIN) for valuable advice and the provided type material of Ph. antennalis, V.A. Gusakov (Moscow) and Christel and Hans Werner Hoffeins (Hamburg) for the possibility of examining the collection material, M.V. Podolsky (KAM) for help with preparing the illustrations, A.V. Smirnova (KAM) for extensive help with organizing research, and T.Yu. Suvorova (KAM) for administrative support.

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This work was financially supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project 19-05-00207).

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Russian Text © The Author(s), 2019, published in Entomologicheskoe Obozrenie, 2019, Vol. 98, No. 4, pp. 816–833.

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Manukyan, A.R. New Data on Ichneumon Wasps of the Subfamily Pherhombinae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) in Baltic Amber with Descriptions of Three New Species. Entmol. Rev. 99, 1324–1338 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0013873819090112

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