Cretevania major Rasnitsyn 1975 (ensign wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Evaniidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134

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

See also PeƱalver et al. 2010, Rasnitsyn 1975 and Spahr 1987

Sister taxa: Cretevania alcalai, Cretevania alonsoi, Cretevania bechlyi, Cretevania concordia, Cretevania cyrtocerca, Cretevania exquisita, Cretevania extincta, Cretevania kachinensis, Cretevania meridionalis, Cretevania minor, Cretevania minuta, Cretevania mitis, Cretevania montoyai, Cretevania orgonomecorum, Cretevania pristina, Cretevania rubusensis, Cretevania soplaensis, Cretevania tenuis, Cretevania venae, Cretevania vesca

Type specimen: PIN 3311/362, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)

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