A New Subfamily of Ichneumonids from the Lower Cretaceous
of Transbaikalia and Mongolia
(Insecta: Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)

D. S. Kopylov

Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 123, Moscow, 117997 Russia

e-mail: aeschna@yandex.ru

Received November 14, 2007

Abstract—A new subfamily of ichneumonids, Palaeoichneumoninae, is described from the Lower Cretaceous
of Transbaikalia (Baisa locality) and Mongolia (Bon Tsagan and Kholbotu Gol localities). The new subfamily
is intermediate between the archaic subfamily Tanychorinae and the Recent Ichneumonidae. It includes 12 new
species, described in three new genera: Palaeoichneumon freja gen. et sp. nov., P. ornatus sp. nov., P. danu sp. nov.,
P. micron
sp. nov., P. mirabilis sp. nov., P. tenebrosus sp. nov., P. townesi sp. nov., Rudimentifera mora gen. et
sp. nov., R. suspecta sp. nov., Dischysma maculata gen. et sp. nov., D. similis sp. nov., and D. ramulata sp. nov.

DOI: 10.1134/S0031030109010092

Key words: Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae, new taxa, Lower Cretaceous, Transbaikalia, Mongolia.


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