taxonID	type	description	language	source
03EC8047980EC30C040CC16B1D73FDEA.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. See the discussion below.	en	Nel, André, Auvray, Francis (2006): The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 1344: 59-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174484
03EC8047980EC30C040CC16B1D73FDEA.taxon	description	Description. Body not well preserved, 21 mm long, black with wings hyaline; head 4 mm long, 5.5 mm wide; compound eyes 2 mm long, 3 mm apart; clypeus not projecting; mesosoma 7 mm long, 6 mm wide; mesoscutum with lateral longitudinal carina opposite tegula, lacking parategula; notauli and parapsidal furrows not preserved; mid tibia 3 mm long; hind femur 4 mm long, hind tibia 3 mm long, hind tarsus 4 mm long; preserved part of fore wing 14 mm long, 3.5 mm wide; prestigma 0.3 mm long, distinctly shorter than pterostigma (0.6 mm long); first discal cell 6.5 mm long, longer than subbasal cell (4.6 mm long); vein 1 cua straight and much shorter than vein 2 / 1 A; cell [1 SD] neither narrowed nor projecting apically; metasoma 10 mm long, 7 mm wide; with tergum 1 abruptly narrowed anteriorly, 6 mm wide.	en	Nel, André, Auvray, Francis (2006): The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 1344: 59-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174484
03EC8047980EC30C040CC16B1D73FDEA.taxon	materials_examined	Material. Holotype specimen 21.6, (Auvray coll.), provisionally deposited in the department of Palaeontology, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris.	en	Nel, André, Auvray, Francis (2006): The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 1344: 59-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174484
03EC8047980EC30C040CC16B1D73FDEA.taxon	etymology	Etymology. This species is named after the outcrop of Menat in which it was found.	en	Nel, André, Auvray, Francis (2006): The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 1344: 59-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174484
03EC8047980EC30C040CC16B1D73FDEA.taxon	discussion	Discussion. Following the key to the recent subfamilies of Brothers and Finnamore (1993), Paleovespa menatensis sp. nov. falls in the Vespidae, and specifically Vespinae due to the following characters: the vein 1 cua of the fore wing is straight and much shorter than vein 2 / 1 A; the first discal cell of the fore wing is longer than subbasal cell. This last character is also excluding the Cretaceous subfamily Priovespinae (Carpenter and Rasnitsyn 1990); the cell [1 SD] of the fore wing is neither narrowed nor projecting apically; the prestigma is distinctly shorter than the pterostigma; the mesoscutum has a lateral longitudinal carina opposite tegula; the clypeus is not projecting; the mesoscutum lacks parategula; the metasomal tergum 1 abruptly narrows anteriorly.	en	Nel, André, Auvray, Francis (2006): The oldest Vespinae from the Paleocene of Menat (France) (Hymenoptera: Vespidae). Zootaxa 1344: 59-62, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.174484
