Davidian Elena M, Manukyan Andranik R, Belokobylskij Sergey A
All-Russian Institute of Plant Protection (FSBSI VIZR); Podbelskogo; 3; St PetersburgPushkin 196608; Russia.
Kaliningrad Amber Museum; Marshal Vasilevskiy Square; 1; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia; Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences; St Petersburg 199034; Russia.
Zootaxa. 2023 Dec 20;5389(3):386-392. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5389.3.6.
A new species of aphid parasitoid from the genus Ephedrus Haliday, E. zaikai Davidian, sp. nov. (Braconidae: Aphidiinae), is described and illustrated from Late Eocene Baltic amber. This new species was compared with described fossil taxa Ephedrus mirabilis Timon-David, 1944 (Oligocene imprint from Bassin de Marseille), Ephedrus carsteni Davidian, 2023 and E. primordialis Brues, 1933 (both from Eocene Baltic amber), and E. rasnitsyni Davidian & Kaliuzhna, 2021 (Eocene Sakhalinian amber), as well as with extant E. niger Gautier, Bonnamour & Gaumont, 1929 and E. chaitophori Grdenfors, 1986.
描述并图示了来自麻黄蚜茧蜂属(Ephedrus Haliday)的一个新物种——扎凯麻黄蚜茧蜂(Ephedrus zaikai Davidian, sp. nov.)(茧蜂科:蚜茧蜂亚科),该物种来自始新世晚期的波罗的海琥珀。将这个新物种与已描述的化石类群进行了比较,包括1944年的奇异麻黄蚜茧蜂(Ephedrus mirabilis Timon-David)(来自马赛盆地的渐新世印记)、2023年的卡尔斯滕麻黄蚜茧蜂(Ephedrus carsteni Davidian)和1933年的原始麻黄蚜茧蜂(E. primordialis Brues)(均来自始新世波罗的海琥珀)、2021年的拉斯尼茨基麻黄蚜茧蜂(E. rasnitsyni Davidian & Kaliuzhna)(始新世萨哈林琥珀),以及现存的1929年的黑麻黄蚜茧蜂(E. niger Gautier, Bonnamour & Gaumont)和1986年的蔡氏麻黄蚜茧蜂(E. chaitophori Grdenfors)。