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New genera and species of Scelionidae (Insecta: Proctotrupoidea) from Rovno amber

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Two new genera and three new species of parasitic wasps from the family Scelionidae are described from the Late Eocene Rovno amber: Pseudotelea gracilis Kononova, gen. et sp. nov. (subfamily Scelioninae), Pseudidris striatus Kononova, gen. et sp. nov., and Ceratobaeoides cornutus Kononova, sp. nov. (subfamily Baeinae). The new taxa are compared with representatives of the Recent fauna.

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  1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

    S. V. Kononova & S. A. Simutnik

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  1. S. V. Kononova
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Correspondence to S. V. Kononova.

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Original Russian Text © S.V. Kononova, S.A. Simutnik, 2010, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2010, No. 5, pp. 74–78.

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Kononova, S.V., Simutnik, S.A. New genera and species of Scelionidae (Insecta: Proctotrupoidea) from Rovno amber. Paleontol. J. 44, 556–560 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030110050102

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