Palaeopolistes Perrard

Perrard, Adrien, Nel, André & Carpenter, James M., 2014, A new paper wasp from Late Eocene of France (Hymenoptera: Vespidae: Polistinae), Zootaxa 3753 (6), pp. 542-548 : 543

Genus Palaeopolistes Perrard , gen. nov.

Etymology. Named after palaeus, old, and genus Polistes . Gender masculine.

Type species. Palaeopolistes jattioti Perrard , sp. nov. by monotypy.

Diagnosis: First metasomal segment elongated and flasklike, with a maximal width at half of width of second segment; occipital carina, pronotal carina, scrobal sulcus present; marginal cell pointed; prestigma length less than 1/3 of pterostigma length; vein r2 joining pterostigma around its middle; length of cross-section of vein M between R S and 1m-cu shorter than between 1m-cu and 2m-cu; vein 1cu-a not strongly postfurcal, i.e. 1cu-a longer than ¼ of section of Cu1 between M and 1cu-a; transversal segment of Cu1 more than twice as long as Cu1b.