Pteromalus vectensis Cockerell 1921 (chalcid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pteromalidae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, V. Oligocene Hymenoptera from the Isle of Wight. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 7:1-25

Belongs to Pteromalus according to A. P. Rasnitsyn 2014

See also Cockerell 1921

Sister taxa: Pteromalus abdominalis, Pteromalus aerosus, Pteromalus atomus, Pteromalus atra, Pteromalus clavicornis, Pteromalus crassicapitatus, Pteromalus defossus, Pteromalus exanimis, Pteromalus hirtipes, Pteromalus latipennatus, Pteromalus longicornis, Pteromalus pulchellus, Pteromalus pygmaeolus, Pteromalus rectispinus, Pteromalus rottensis, Pteromalus venustus

Type specimen: BMNH I. 9472, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll)

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