Tenthredo avia Brues 1908 (wood wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Tenthredinidae

Full reference: C. T. Brues. 1908. New Phytophagous Hymenoptera from the Tertiary of Florissant, Colorado. Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College 51(10):259-276

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

See also Brues 1908

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

Type specimen: MCZ 2046, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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