Insecta - Hymenoptera - Praeaulacidae

Full reference: H. C. Zhang and A. P. Rasnitsyn. 2008. Middle Jurassic Praeaulacidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) of Inner Mongolia and Kazakhstan. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 6:463-487

Belongs to Praeaulacus according to L. F. Li et al. 2018

See also Zhang and Rasnitsyn 2008

Sister taxa: Praeaulacus afflatus, Praeaulacus byssinus, Praeaulacus cephalotus, Praeaulacus cubocephalus, Praeaulacus daohugouensis, Praeaulacus elegans, Praeaulacus exquisitus, Praeaulacus leptogaster, Praeaulacus magnus, Praeaulacus obscurus, Praeaulacus obtutus, Praeaulacus patiens, Praeaulacus ramosus, Praeaulacus rectus, Praeaulacus robustus, Praeaulacus scabratus, Praeaulacus sculptus, Praeaulacus sharteg, Praeaulacus subrhombeus, Praeaulacus tenellus, Praeaulacus ventricosus

Type specimen: NIGP 148216, an exoskeleton. 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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Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.