Insecta - Hymenoptera - Angarosphecidae
Alternative combination: Cretosphex parvus
Full reference: D. C. Darling. 1990. Taxonomic names, in Insects from the Santana Formation, Lower Cretaceous, of Brazil. Chapter 7: Order Hymenoptera. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 195:123-153
Belongs to Angarosphex according to S. H. Jon et al. 2019
See also Darling 1990, Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 and Zhang et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Angarosphex alethes, Angarosphex baektoensus, Angarosphex beiboziensis, Angarosphex bleachi, Angarosphex consensus, Angarosphex goldringi, Angarosphex lithodes, Angarosphex lithographicus, Angarosphex magnus, Angarosphex myrmicopterus, Angarosphex niger, Angarosphex pallidus, Angarosphex penyalveri, Angarosphex ryonsangiensis, Angarosphex saxosus, Angarosphex strigosus, Angarosphex venulosus
Type specimen: AMNH 43264, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Crato (AMNH collection), which is in an Aptian lacustrine - large carbonate in the Crato Formation of Brazil.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Crato (AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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