Tenthredo primordialis Piton 1940 (wood wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae

Alternative combination: Tenthredo primordinalis

Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303

Belongs to Tenthredo according to A. Taeger et al. 2010

See also Piton 1940

Sister taxa: Tenthredo (Tenthredella), Tenthredo avia, Tenthredo gervaisi, Tenthredo infossa, Tenthredo meunieri, Tenthredo miocenica, Tenthredo petrae, Tenthredo rhysia, Tenthredo saxorum, Tenthredo submersa

Type specimen: Coll. Piton 268, an exoskeleton (missing abdomen). Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)

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