BioOne.org will be down briefly for maintenance on 17 December 2024 between 18:00-22:00 Pacific Time US. We apologize for any inconvenience.
How to translate text using browser tools
27 September 2013 Palaeogronotoma n. gen. from the Miocene of Spain, the first Tertiary fossil record of the subfamily Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)
Enrique Peñalver, Félix M. Fontal-Cazalla, Juli Pujade-Villar
Author Affiliations +
Abstract

From the extensive fossil record of insects found in the Early Miocene of the Rubielos de Mora basin (Teruel Province, Spain) a single, well-preserved specimen of the subfamily Eucoilinae Thomson, 1862 (Hymenoptera: Cynipoidea: Figitidae) has been identified. The palaeoentomological site of Rubielos de Mora is a Konservat-Lagerstätte constituted by lacustrine oil-shales. The specimen is the first fossil Eucoilinae from a Tertiary outcrop and it represents a new genus and species of a family (Figitidae Thomson, 1862) extremely scarce in the fossil record: Palaeogronotoma nordlanderi n. gen, n. sp. The genus belongs to Gronotoma group (Diglyphosemini Belizin, 1961 tribe) and it is closely related to the genus Gronotoma Förster, 1869, from which mainly differs in the antennal configuration, which is especially well preserved, although other diagnostic characters are studied in this paper.

© Publications Scientifiques du Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle, Paris.
Enrique Peñalver, Félix M. Fontal-Cazalla, and Juli Pujade-Villar "Palaeogronotoma n. gen. from the Miocene of Spain, the first Tertiary fossil record of the subfamily Eucoilinae (Hymenoptera: Figitidae)," Geodiversitas 35(3), 643-653, (27 September 2013). https://doi.org/10.5252/g2013n3a7
Received: 3 May 2011; Accepted: 1 September 2012; Published: 27 September 2013
JOURNAL ARTICLE
11 PAGES

This article is only available to subscribers.
It is not available for individual sale.
+ SAVE TO MY LIBRARY

KEYWORDS
Early Miocene
Espagne
espèce nouvelle
Eucoilinae
genre nouveau
Hymenoptera
Insecta
RIGHTS & PERMISSIONS
Get copyright permission
Back to Top