Iberomaimetsha Ortega-Blanco, Perrichot & Engel

Perrichot, Vincent, Ortega-Blanco, Jaime, McKellar, Ryan C., Delclos, Xavier, Azar, Dany, Nel, Andre, Tafforeau, Paul & Engel, Michael S., 2011, New and revised maimetshid wasps from Cretaceous ambers (Hymenoptera, Maimetshidae), ZooKeys 130, pp. 421-453 : 429

Iberomaimetsha Ortega-Blanco, Perrichot & Engel gen. n.

Type species.

Iberomaimetsha rasnitsyni Ortega-Blanco, Perrichot & Engel, sp. n.

Diagnosis.

Antennae with 16 articles; pedicel straight; notauli parallel; forewing costal cell thinner than pterostigma width; prestigma incrassate, wider than base of R, and about the length of 1Rs (distinctly separated from pterostigma); pterostigma longer than distance from base of Rs to base of 2r-rs; cell [2R1] short, about 2.4x longer than wide; cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] present but with 2rs-m slightly sclerotized; extremely light nebulous 2m-cu (only visible playing with light incidence angle); protibial spur biseriate apically.

Etymology.

The new genus-group name is a combination of Iberia, referring to the Iberian Peninsula, and Maimetsha , type genus of the family. The name is feminine.

Comments.

Iberomaimetsha is well distinguished from Maimetsha and Guyotemaimetsha in the simultaneous presence of cells [1Rs] and [2Rs] (rm cells sensu Rasnitsyn and Brothers 2009); it differs from Afromaimetsha by its parallel notauli (instead of diverging anteriorly); the prestigma is incrassate, clearly wider than basalmost R, not as in Afrapia ; the origin of Rs in Iberomaimetsha is well separated from pterostigma, not as close as in Maimetshorapia ; the pedicel is straight and not “comma-shaped” as in Ahstemiam (see below); Andyrossia was described from just a forewing but Iberomaimetsha differs clearly in several details, such as the length of cell [2R1] (around 2.4 times longer than wide versus 3.6 in Andyrossia ), and the width of cell [C] (narrower than pterostigmal width in Iberomaimetsha versus wider in Andyrossia ).