Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megachilidae

Alternative combination: Palaeomacropis eocenicus

Full reference: D. Michez, A. Nel, J.J. Menier and P. Rasmont. 2007. The oldest fossil of a melittid bee (Hymenoptera: Apiformes) from the early Eocene of Oise (France). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 150:701-709

Belongs to Ctenoplectrella according to M. S. Engel 2021

See also Michez et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Ctenoplectrella cockerelli, Ctenoplectrella gorskii, Ctenoplectrella grimaldii, Ctenoplectrella phaeton, Ctenoplectrella viridiceps, Ctenoplectrella zherikhini

Type specimen: MNHN PA 3190, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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