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 Pompilopterus according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and E. A. Jarzembowski 1998
Sister taxa: Pompilopterus ciliatus, Pompilopterus corpus, Pompilopterus difficilis, Pompilopterus keymerensis, Pompilopterus leei, Pompilopterus montsecensis, Pompilopterus noguerensis, Pompilopterus ryonsangensis, Pompilopterus sinuijuensis, Pompilopterus wimbledoni
Type specimen: BMB 018508/9, a forewing. Its type locality is New pit, Clockhouse Brickworks, which is in a Hauterivian lagoonal sandstone in the Weald Clay Formation of the United Kingdom.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at New pit, Clockhouse Brickworks
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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