Utrillabracon Alvarez-Parra & Engel, 2022

Alvarez-Parra, Sergio, Penalver, Enrique, Delclos, Xavier & Engel, Michael S., 2022, A braconid wasp (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) from the Lower Cretaceous amber of San Just, eastern Iberian Peninsula, ZooKeys 1103, pp. 65-78 : 65

publication ID

https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.1103.83650

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:079C1F77-A3AA-4158-AE53-5F510C8FA0BE

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/C6FE19C1-A5D0-4780-9860-F611198EF09C

taxon LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:act:C6FE19C1-A5D0-4780-9860-F611198EF09C

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scientific name

Utrillabracon Alvarez-Parra & Engel
status

gen. nov.

Utrillabracon Alvarez-Parra & Engel gen. nov.

Type species.

Utrillabracon electropteron Álvarez-Parra & Engel, sp. nov.

Diagnosis.

Forewing with margin bearing setae; pterostigma 4 × longer than wide; 1Rs relatively long and curved; r-rs oblique, arising medially from pterostigma; r-rs several times longer than abscissa of M between 2Rs and m-cu; marginal cell reaching wing apex; rs-m nebulous; elongate, five-sided second submarginal cell, 3 × longer than wide; 1M and m-cu of similar length; m-cu distinctly postfurcal; 2m-cu absent; cu-a slightly postfurcal and orthogonal. Hind wing with margin bearing setae; R1 distally widened with several hamuli beyond its apex; Sc + R not aligned with Rs; 2Cu present. Pretarsal claws present, without preapical tooth; arolium wide.

Etymology.

The generic name is a combination of Utrillas, municipality where the San Just amber outcrop is located, and Bracon Fabricius, 1804, type genus of the family Braconidae . The gender of the name is masculine.