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. 2022
See also Li et al. 2018 and 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 orientalis, Praeaulacus patiens, Praeaulacus ramosus, Praeaulacus rectus, Praeaulacus robustus, Praeaulacus sculptus, Praeaulacus sharteg, Praeaulacus subrhombeus, Praeaulacus tenellus, Praeaulacus ventricosus
Type specimen: NIGP 148221, 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:
• Jurassic of China (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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