Rhetinorhyssalites, Engel, Michael S., Thomas, Jennifer C. & Alqarni, Abdulaziz S., 2017

Engel, Michael S., Thomas, Jennifer C. & Alqarni, Abdulaziz S., 2017, A new genus of protorhyssaline wasps in Raritan amber (Hymenoptera, Braconidae), ZooKeys 711, pp. 103-111 : 105

Rhetinorhyssalites gen. n.

Type species.

Rhetinorhyssalites emersoni sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Head cyclostome, with hypoclypeal depression deep; antenna with 20-24 flagellomeres (18-20 in Protorhyssalus Basibuyuk et al.); flagellum with scattered multiporous plate sensilla; occipital carina present and complete, albeit particularly weak dorsally; compound eyes not emarginate, without evident setae. Pronotal collar short, with subpronope scarcely indicated; notauli deeply impressed, percurrent; mesoscutal lateral areas sculptured as on remainder of mesoscutum; mesoscutellum not raised relative to mesoscutum (distinctly raised in Protorhyssalus ); epicnemial carina absent (present in Protorhyssalus : "prepectal carina" sensu Basibuyuk et al. 1999); postpectal carina absent. Forewing (Fig. 4) with minute costal cell apically, otherwise C+Sc+R fused, without indication of fusion line except proximally; 1Rs present, forming straight line with 1M (1Rs/1M straight), slightly more than one-half length 1M (very short in Protorhyssalus ); rs-m present; 1m-cu meeting second submarginal cell, second submarginal cell narrowly elongate postero-proximally (not so in Protorhyssalus ); 2m-cu absent; 1cu-a strongly postfurcal; 2cu-a scarcely present (represented only by hint of stub at angle in 3Cu; stubs 1a and 2a present. Hind wing with sc+r-m lacking bulla, much shorter than 1M; bulla lacking between 1A and stub of 2Cu (present in Protorhyssalus ); minute stub of 2Cu present. Metasomal tergum I with dorsope and laterope deeply impressed; dorsal carina strong, extending to posterior margin of tergum.

Etymology.

The generic name is a combination of Rhetinorhyssalus Engel, a genus with somewhat similar venation, and the suffix -ites (Greek, "having the nature of"). The gender of the name is feminine.