Insecta - Hymenoptera - Dryinidae
Alternative combinations: Avodryinus canadensis, Richardsidryinus canadensis
Full reference: A. G. Ponomarenko. 1981. New Dryinidae (Hymenoptera) from the late Cretaceous of the Taymyr and Canada. Paleontological Journal 15(1):115-120
Belongs to Dryinus according to M. Olmi and E. G. Virla 2014
See also Olmi 1984, Olmi and Bechly 2001, Ponomarenko 1981 and Spahr 1987
Sister taxa: Dryinus acutifrons, Dryinus alamellatus, Dryinus antiquus, Dryinus arakanesis, Dryinus balticus, Dryinus bamar, Dryinus brachytarsis, Dryinus bruesi, Dryinus burmensis, Dryinus carsteni, Dryinus chin, Dryinus grimaldii, Dryinus hymenaeaphilus, Dryinus janzeni, Dryinus katyae, Dryinus laminatus, Dryinus latitarsis, Dryinus maderai, Dryinus mortuorum, Dryinus muenchi, Dryinus nadezhdae, Dryinus palaeodominicanus, Dryinus palaeomexicanus, Dryinus parisei, Dryinus poinari, Dryinus pristinus, Dryinus rasnitsyni, Dryinus reifi, Dryinus taron, Dryinus velteni, Dryinus vetus, Dryinus vetustus, Dryinus wunderlichi
Type specimen: CNC 1130, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection), which is in a Campanian terrestrial amber in the Foremost Formation of Canada.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Grassy Lake, Medicine Hat (CNC June 1974 collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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