Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758

Belokobylskij, Sergey A., 2012, Cretaceous braconid wasps from the Magadan Province of Russia, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 57 (2), pp. 351-361 : 352

Order Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758 Family Braconidae Nees, 1812

Subfamily Protorhyssalinae Basibuyuk, Quicke, and van Achterberg, 1999

Remarks.—The monotypic subfamily Protorhyssalinae was established from a single genus and species, Protorhyssalus goldmani Basibuyuk and Quicke, 1999 , from the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) amber of New Jersey, USA ( Basibuyuk et al. 1999). Recently Perrichot et al. (2009) described two new genera and species from French Cretaceous amber, Protorhyssalodes arnaudi Perrichot, Nel, and Quicke, 2009 ( Protorhyssalinae ) and Aenigmabracon capdoliensis Perrichot, Nel, and Quicke, 2009 , which is similar to this subfamily but it was placed by the authors in Braconidae as “subfamily incertae sedis”.

All these taxa were described from amber inclusions permitting thorough examination of the fossils. Rock fossils, like those described below, do not provide such detail and are much worse preserved. Some important details, including details of fore and hind wings, are missing. The multiporous plate sensillae of antennal segments which are the main synapomorphy of Protorhyssalinae ( Perrichot et al. 2009) are also unclear in the studied fossils. The poor state of preservation of the basal half of the hind wings is particularly unfortunate because of the taxonomically important features concentrated there. As a result, the taxonomic position of the new taxa is somewhat uncertain, and assignment of both new genera to the subfamily Protorhyssalinae remains putative.