Angarosphex bleachi Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 (apoid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Angarosphecidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and E. A. Jarzembowski. 1998. Taxonomic names, in Wasps (Insecta: Vespida = Hymenoptera) from the Purbeck and Wealden (Lower Cretaceous) of southern England and their biostratigraphical and palaeoenvironmental significance. Cretaceous Research 19:329-391

Belongs to Angarosphex according to S. H. Jon et al. 2019

See also Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 and Zhang et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Angarosphex alethes, Angarosphex baektoensus, Angarosphex beiboziensis, Angarosphex consensus, Angarosphex goldringi, Angarosphex lithodes, Angarosphex lithographicus, Angarosphex magnus, Angarosphex myrmicopterus, Angarosphex niger, Angarosphex pallidus, Angarosphex parvus, Angarosphex penyalveri, Angarosphex ryonsangiensis, Angarosphex saxosus, Angarosphex strigosus, Angarosphex venulosus

Type specimen: BMB 018515/6, a forewing. Its type locality is Clockhouse Rock Store, Clockhouse Brickworks, which is in a Hauterivian lagoonal sandstone in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Clockhouse Rock Store, Clockhouse Brickworks

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