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Cimbicidae (Hymenoptera, 'Symphyta') in the Paleogene: revision, the new subfamily Cenocimbicinae, and new taxa from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands

  • 1. Department of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences, University of British Columbia, 2020 - 2207 Main Mall, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, V6T 1Z4, Canada. bruce.archibald@ubc.ca; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4397-2497 & Department of Biological Sciences, Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, British Columbia, V5A 1S6, Canada Museum of Comparative Zoology, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02138, United States of America & Royal British Columbia Museum, 675 Belleville Street, Victoria, British Columbia, V8W 9W2, Canada
  • 2. A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, Russia & Invertebrate Paleontology Department, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London SW7 5BD, United Kingdom Corresponding author. bruce.archibald@ubc.ca

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Archibald, S. Bruce, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P. (2023): Cimbicidae (Hymenoptera, 'Symphyta') in the Paleogene: revision, the new subfamily Cenocimbicinae, and new taxa from the Eocene Okanagan Highlands. Zootaxa 5278 (1): 1-38, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.1, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5278.1.1

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