Iwestia Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998 (aphid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pemphredonidae

Alternative spelling: Ivestia

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

Parent taxon: Pemphredonina according to W. J. Pulawski 2014

See also Antropov 2011 and Rasnitsyn and Jarzembowski 1998

Sister taxa: Cretoecus, Eopinoecus, Eoxyloecus, Palarpactophilus, Passaloecus, Pemphredon, Pittoecus, Prolemistus, Rovnoecus, Succinoecus

Subtaxa: Iwestia provecta

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Type: Iwestia provecta

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Durlston Bay, Swanage, Dorset (Mitchell coll) (Cretaceous of the United Kingdom)

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