†Ophrynopus peritus Engel 2008 (parasitic wood wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Orussidae
Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2008. An orussid wood wasp in amber from the Dominican Republic (Hymenoptera: Orussidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 111:39-44
Belongs to Ophrynopus according to A. Taeger et al. 2010
See also Engel 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MACT-2524, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Morone Amber Collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Morone Amber Collection)
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