Pseudosirex heeri Westwood 1854 (winged insect)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Pseudosiricidae

Alternative combination: Myrmicium heeri

Full reference: J. O. Westwood. 1854. Contributions to fossil entomology. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 10:378-396

Belongs to Pseudosirex according to A. Handlirsch 1906

Sister taxa: Myrmicium araripterum, Myrmicium elongatum, Myrmicium heerii, Myrmicium nanus, Myrmicium schroeteri, Apiaria oppenheimi, Apiaria mesozoica

Type specimen: BMNH I.3990, a forewing. Its type locality is Durlston Bay, Lower Purbeck, Swanage (Brodie coll.), which is in a Berriasian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal limestone in the Lulworth Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: there are no occurrences of Pseudosirex heeri in the database

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