Praeichneumon

Praeichneumon
Temporal range: Lower Cretaceous
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Superfamily: Ichneumonoidea
Family: Praeichneumonidae
Rasnitsyn, 1983
Genus: Praeichneumon
Rasnitsyn, 1983
Species
  • P. townesi Rasnitsyn, 1983
  • P. transbaikalicus Rasnitsyn, 1990
  • P. dzhidensis Kopylov, 2012
  • P. khamardabanicus Kopylov, 2012
  • P. zakhaaminicus Kopylov, 2012

Praeichneumon is an extinct genus of ichneumon wasps from the Lower Cretaceous of Mongolia and the Russian region of Transbaikalia. It was originally described by Alexandr Pavlovich Rasnitsyn in 1983, who also added a second species in 1990. Three new species were described by D. S. Kopylov in 2012.[1]

References

  1. ↑ D. S. Kopylov (2012). "New species of Praeichneumonidae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonoidea) from the Lower Cretaceous of Transbaikalia". Paleontological Journal 46 (1): 66–72. doi:10.1134/S0031030112010078.
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