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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.