†tribe Protolithurgini Engel 2001 (mason bee)
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megachilidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2001. A monograph of the Baltic amber bees and evolution of the Apoidea (Hymenoptera). Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 259:1-192
Parent taxon: Lithurginae according to M. S. Engel 2021
See also Engel 2001 and Gonzalez et al. 2012
Sister taxon: Lithurgini
Subtaxa: Protolithurgus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (AMNH collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)