Protoita Ulmer & Krogmann, 2023

UImer, Jonah M., Jansta, Petr, Azar, Dany & Krogmann, Lars, 2023, At the dawn of megadiversity - Protoitidae, a new family of Chalcidoidea (Hymenoptera) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber, Journal of Hymenoptera Research 96, pp. 879-924 : 879

Protoita Ulmer & Krogmann gen. nov.

Diagnosis.

Small, less than 1 mm in length. Head transverse in dorsal view, wider than mesosoma and with temple narrow. Metasoma sessile, broadly associated with mesosoma, and in dorsal view triangular in shape; syntergum no longer than preceding tergite; cerci digitiform. Female with exerted ovipositor at most ¼ as long as length of metasoma.