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29 September 2024 Fossil Darwin Wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan
Yui Takahashi, Gavin R. Broad, Tamara Spasojevic, Hiroaki Aiba
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Abstract

Specimens belonging to the family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) from the Chibanian (Middle Pleistocene) Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan, are reviewed. The following seventeen species including one new species are identified: Ichneumonidae gen. et sp. indet., Banchus shiobaraensis sp. nov., Campopleginae gen. et sp. indet., Cryptini gen. et sp. indet., Aptesini gen. et sp. indet., Ichneumoninae gen. et sp. indet. A and B, Ichneumonini gen. et sp. indet. A–C, Microleptes? sp., Orthocentrus sp., Phygadeuontinae gen. et sp. indet., Stibeutes? sp., Pimplinae gen. et sp. indet., Pimpla? sp. A and B. Among them, members of the subfamilies Banchinae, Microleptinae, Orthocentrinae and Phygadeuontinae are not only new discoveries in the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara fauna, but also the first fossil records of these subfamilies in Japan.

Yui Takahashi, Gavin R. Broad, Tamara Spasojevic, and Hiroaki Aiba "Fossil Darwin Wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Middle Pleistocene Shiobara Group, Tochigi Prefecture, Japan," Paleontological Research 28(4), 497-518, (29 September 2024). https://doi.org/10.2517/PR240005
Received: 15 February 2024; Accepted: 7 June 2024; Published: 29 September 2024
KEYWORDS
Chibanian
compression fossils
fossil records
Ichneumonoidea
insects
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