Labenopimplinae Kopylov, 2010

Kopylov, Dmitry S., Brothers, Denis J. & Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P., 2010, Two new labenopimpline ichneumonids (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae) from the Upper Cretaceous of southern Africa, African Invertebrates 51 (2), pp. 423-423 : 424

Subfamily Labenopimplinae Kopylov, 2010

Labenopimplinae : Kopylov 2010 b: 59–60.

Type genus: Labenopimpla Kopylov, 2010 (by original designation).

The prime morphological characteristic differentiating this subfamily from the Palaeoichneumoninae is the presence of parallel (rather than posteriorly converging) notauli. Unfortunately, the notauli are not visible in either of the specimens described here. Nevertheless, they are assigned to the Labenopimplinae on the basis of their characteristically shaped areolet: Labenopimpla has the areolet pentagonal with a relatively long 4M and subvertical r–m, and Rugopimpla has a quadrangular areolet, but all Palaeoichneumoninae have the areolet pentagonal with oblique r–m. Thus, these specimens can be clearly assigned to two of the five known labenopimpline genera on the basis of the generic characters listed by Kopylov (2010 b).