Westratia gobiensis Rasnitsyn 1990 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Praeaulacidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1990. New representatives of the hymenopterous family Praeaulacidae from Early Cretaceous Buryatia and Mongolia. Vestnik Zoologii 1990(6):27-31

Belongs to Westratia according to L. F. Li et al. 2018

See also Rasnitsyn 1990

Sister taxa: Westratia caudata, Westratia curtipes, Westratia femorata, Westratia nana, Westratia pachygaster, Westratia pentadecamera, Westratia striata

Type specimen: PIN 3559/10168, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8)

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