Kathirithamby, J & Grimaldi, D. (1993). Remarkable stasis in some Lower Tertiary parasitoids: descriptions, new records and review of Strepsiptera in the Oligo-Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic. Entomological Scandinavica. 24(1): 31-41.

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Kathirithamby, J & Grimaldi, D.

1993

24(1): 31-41.

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25-30 million years of parasite stasisi s recordedi n amber from the Dominican Republic,b y the finding of a species of strepsipteran morphologically indistinguishable from Bohartilla melagognatha Kinzelbach, 1969 (Bohartillidae), and two species very close to Caenocholax fenyesi (Pierce 1909)( Myrmecolacidae). A new record is made of a speciesp reviously described from Dominican amber, Myrmecolax glaesi Kinzelbach, 1983.T he history of the Tertiary strep- sipteran fauna is discussed.M inimal ages of taxa are extrapolated based on these amber and other fossils, higher-level cladistic relationships, and fossil dating of major host groups. These new findings are consistent with Kinzelbach's hypotheses of an ancient, Lower Creta- ceous/Jurassic origin of the Strepsiptera.

Parasites, Parasitism

Arthropoda

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