Eupsenella eocenica De Ploëg and Nel 2004

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Alternative combinations: Eupsenella eocenicus, Protobethylus eocenicus

Full reference: G. De Ploëg and A. Nel. 2004. A new bethylid wasp from the Lowermost Eocene amber of France (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae: Bethylinae). Geologica Acta 2:75-82

Belongs to Eupsenella according to C. O. Azevedo et al. 2018

See also Azevedo and Azar 2012, De Ploëg and Nel 2004 and Ramos et al. 2014

Sister taxa: Eupsenella aulax, Eupsenella klesoviana, Eupsenella neoeocenica, Eupsenella neohongi, Eupsenella rossica, Eupsenella yantarnica, Fushunochrysites, Sinibethylus

Type specimen: MNHN PA 2436, 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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