Insecta - Hymenoptera - Athaliidae
Alternative combination: Eriocampa wheeleri
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1906. Fossil Saw-flies from Florissant Colorado. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 22:499-501
Belongs to Athalia according to A. N. Zhelochovtzev and A. P. Rasnitsyn 1972
See also Cockerell 1906, Cockerell 1927, Rice 1968, Rohwer 1908 and Taeger et al. 2010
Sister taxon: Athalia vetuecclesiae
Type specimen: AMNH Fl 18871, an exoskeleton (body with wings attached, missing abdomen ). Its type locality is Florissant, Station 14, which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of United States (2: Colorado collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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