Karatavites junfengi Rasnitsyn and Zhang 2010 (wood wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Karatavitidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and H. Zhang. 2010. Early evolution of Apocrita (Insecta, Hymenoptera) as indicated by new findings in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Northeast China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4):834-873

Belongs to Karatavites according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and H. Zhang 2010

Sister taxa: Karatavites angustus, Karatavites medius, Karatavites ningchengensis

Type specimen: NND2655/NIGP 151928, an exoskeleton (female wasp slightly damaged). Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Daohugou (NIGP collection)

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