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Review of the Late Eocene Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with a description of the first fossil genus with filum spinosum

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Glaesus gibsoni gen. et sp. nov. and Eocencnemus gedanicus sp. nov. are described from materials stored in the amber collection of the University of Gdańsk. Eocencyrtus zerovae Simutnik, 2001 is for the first time recorded in the Baltic amber. The encyrtids recorded in Eocene ambers are reviewed, and a key to the known genera is given. The fossil Encyrtidae cannot be placed with confidence in any of the established subfamilies. Their comparative morphology is analyzed. One of the diagnostic characters of the subfamily Encyrtinae, the presence of the filum spinosum, is recorded for the first time for fossil encyrtids (in G. gibsoni).

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    S. A. Simutnik, E. E. Perkovsky & A. V. Gumovsky

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Original Russian Text © S.A. Simutnik, E.E. Perkovsky, A.V. Gumovsky, 2014, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2014, No. 1, pp. 65–74.

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Simutnik, S.A., Perkovsky, E.E. & Gumovsky, A.V. Review of the Late Eocene Encyrtidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) with a description of the first fossil genus with filum spinosum. Paleontol. J. 48, 65–73 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030114010122

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