Denaeostephanus sulcatus Aguiar and Janzen 2000 (crown wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stephanidae

Alternative combinations: Denaeostephanus sculcatus, Electrostephanus sulcatus

Full reference: A. P. Aguiar and J. W. Janzen. 2000. An overview of fossil Stephanidae (Hymenoptera), with description of two new taxa from Baltic amber, and key to species of Electrostephanus Brues. Entomologica Scandinavica 30:443-452

Belongs to Denaeostephanus according to L. F. Li et al. 2017

See also Aguiar and Janzen 2000 and Engel and Grimaldi 2004

Sister taxa: Denaeostephanus chaofeng, Denaeostephanus petiolatus, Denaeostephanus tridentatus

Type specimen: SGPIH 3892, an exoskeleton

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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