We recently described a sphecid wasp genus Bestiola (in Rasnitsyn et al., 1999) to accommodate four species from Lower Cretaceous of Spain, eastern Russia, and Mongolia. This generic name, however, is preoccupied by Bestiola Nikol’skaya (1963), an aphelinid, as pointed to us by Mr. John K. Page (Zoological Records, York, Great Britain) and also by Signor Guido Pagliano (Torino, Italy). We therefore propose the name Cretobestiola to replace it. The name is derived from the Latin names creta (chalk), with reference to Cretaceous geological period, and bestiola (little beast).We recently described a sphecid wasp genus Bestiola (in Rasnitsyn et al., 1999) to accommodate four species from Lower Cretaceous of Spain, eastern Russia, and Mongolia. This generic name, however, is preoccupied by Bestiola Nikol’skaya (1963), an aphelinid, as pointed to us by Mr. John K. Page (Zoological Records, York, Great Britain) and also by Signor Guido Pagliano (Torino, Italy). We therefore propose the name Cretobestiola to replace it. The name is derived from the Latin names creta (chalk), with reference to Cretaceous geological period, and bestiola (little beast)
