Leptoomus janzeni Gibson 2008 (chalcid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Leptoomidae

Full reference: G. A. P. Gibson. 2008. Description of Leptoomus janzeni, n. gen. and n. sp. (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) from Baltic amber, and discussion of its relationships and classification relative to Eupelmidae, Tanaostigmatidae and Encyrtidae. Zootaxa 1730:1-26

Belongs to Leptoomus according to G. A. P. Gibson and L. Fusu 2023

See also Gibson 2008 and Simutnik et al. 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Ba-JWJ-400, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections), Ukraine (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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