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Pristapenesia

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Source Data

Source	ID	Link
Global Biodiversity Information Facility ID (GBIF)	4670079	https://www.gbif.org/species/4670079
PaleoBioDB ID (PBDB)	152020	https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=152020

Rank

genus

Taxonomy (GBIF,PBDB)

Life : Animalia : Arthropoda : Insecta : Hymenoptera : Scolebythidae : Pristapenesia

Taxonomic Status (GBIF)

accepted

Classification
(PBDB,GBIF)

Rank	Name	Author
-	Eukaryota
-	Opisthokonta	Cavalier-Smith 1987
kingdom	Animalia
-	Bilateria
-	Eubilateria	Ax 1987
-	Protostomia	Grobben 1908
-	Ecdysozoa
-	Panarthropoda
phylum	Arthropoda	Latreille 1829
subphylum	Mandibulata
-	Pancrustacea
superclass	Hexapoda	Latreille 1825
-	Cercofilata	Kukalová-Peck 1987
class	Insecta	Linnaeus 1758
-	Dicondylia
-	Paranotalia	Sroka et al. 2014
subclass	Pterygota	Brauer 1885
-	Neopterygota	Crampton 1924
infraclass	Neoptera	Martynov 1923
-	Holometabola
order	Hymenoptera	Linnaeus 1758
-	Unicalcarida	Schulmeister et al. 2002
suborder	Vespina
suborder	Apocrita	Gerstaecker 1867
-	Aculeata
superfamily	Chrysidoidea	Latreille 1802
family	Scolebythidae	Evans 1963
subfamily	Pristapenesiinae	Engel et al. 2013
genus	Pristapenesia	Brues 1933

Scientific Name

Pristapenesia Brues, 1933

Name Published In

Bernsteinforsch., 3

Opinions (PBDB)

Name	Rank	Opinion	Evidence	Author
Pristapenesia	genus	belongs to Pristocerinae	stated with evidence	Sorg, 1988
Pristapenesia	genus	belongs to Bethylidae	stated without evidence	Carpenter, 1992
Pristapenesia	genus	belongs to Scolebythidae	stated with evidence	Brothers and Janzen, 1999
Pristapenesia	genus	belongs to Pristapenesiinae	stated with evidence	Engel et al., 2013

Status (PBDB)

extant

Taxon Size (PBDB)

Extant Size (PBDB)

1 (33%)

First Recorded Appearance

38.0 - 33.9 Ma
Paleogene

Environment

terrestrial (based on Insecta)

Motility

actively mobile (based on Arthropoda)

Taphonomy

chitin (based on Insecta)

Primary Reference (PBDB)

C. T. Brues. 1933. The Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Baltic Amber. Bernstein-Forschungen 3:4-178

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Fossil Distribution

Subtaxa

Name	Status	Common Name(s)	Fossil Occurrences	Oldest	Youngest
Dominibythus inopinatus species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pristapenesia asiatica species	accepted (GBIF)	No associated record in PBDB
Pristapenesia inopinata ✝ species	listed (PBDB)		1	20.4 Ma Miocene	20.4 Ma Miocene
Pristapenesia primaeva ✝ species	accepted (GBIF) listed (PBDB)		6	38.0 Ma Eocene	38.0 Ma Eocene

Synonymy List

Year	Name and Author
1933	Pristapenesia Brues p. 131
1988	Pristapenesia Sorg p. 72
1992	Pristapenesia Carpenter
1996	Dominibythus Prentice and Poinar
1999	Pristapenesia Brothers and Janzen p. 20
2013	Pristapenesia Engel et al.
2015	Pristapenesia Engel p. 3

References

Brues C. T. (1933) The Parasitic Hymenoptera of the Baltic Amber, Bernstein-Forschungen 3, 4-178

Sorg M. (1988) Zur Phylogenie und Systematik der Bethylidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea), Sonderveröffentlichungen des Geologischen Instituts der Universität Köln 63, 1-146

Carpenter F. M. (1992) , Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part R, Arthropoda 4: Superclass Hexapoda 3/4, 1-655

Prentice M. A., Poinar G. O. (1996) Fossil scolebythids (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae) from Lebanese and Dominican Amber, Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 98, 802-811

Brothers D. J., Janzen J. W. (1999) New generic synonymy in Scolebythidae , with redescription of both sexes of Pristapenesia primaeva Brues from Baltic amber (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea), Proceedings of the First International Palaeoentomological Conference, 17-26

Engel M. S., Ortega-Blanco J., et al (2013) New scolebythid wasps in Cretaceous amber from Spain and Canada, with implications for the phylogeny of the family (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae), Cretaceous Research 46, 31-42

Engel M. S. (2015) The wasp genus Clystopsenella in Early Miocene amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Scolebythidae), Novitates Paleoentomologicae 12, 1-14

Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

as per family - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

original publication/web search (AJR). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Bernsteinforsch., 3 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera

Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!

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