†Allocotidus melpomene Kozlov 1975 (wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stigmaphronidae
Alternative combination: Elasmomorpha melpomene
Full reference: M. A. Kozlov. 1975. Taxonomy; Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134
Belongs to Allocotidus according to M. S. Engel and D. A. Grimaldi 2009
See also Kozlov 1975 and Spahr 1987
Sister taxon: Allocotidus bruesi
Type specimen: PIN 3311/66, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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