Cretevania meridionalis Rasnitsyn 1991 (ensign wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Evaniidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1991. Early Cretaceous evanimorphous hymenopteran families Stigmaphronidae and Cretevaniidae and the subfamily Kotujellitinae (Gasteruptiidae). Paleontological Journal 25(4):172-179

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

See also Rasnitsyn 1991

Sister taxa: Cretevania alcalai, Cretevania alonsoi, Cretevania bechlyi, Cretevania concordia, Cretevania cyrtocerca, Cretevania exquisita, Cretevania extincta, Cretevania kachinensis, Cretevania major, Cretevania minor, Cretevania minuta, Cretevania mitis, Cretevania montoyai, Cretevania pristina, Cretevania rubusensis, Cretevania soplaensis, Cretevania tenuis, Cretevania venae, Cretevania vesca

Type specimen: PIN 3559/4484, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.