Cretaxenomerus jankotejai Nel and Azar 2005 (chalcid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Protoitidae

Full reference: A. Nel and D. Azar. 2005. The oldest parasitic Scelionidae: Teleasinae (Hymenoptera: Platygastroidea). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 74:333-338

Belongs to Cretaxenomerus according to J. M. Ulmer and L. Krogmann 2023

See also Nel and Azar 2005

Sister taxa: Cretaxenomerus brevis, Cretaxenomerus curvus, Cretaxenomerus deangelis, Cretaxenomerus mirari, Cretaxenomerus tenuipenna, Cretaxenomerus vitreus

Type specimen: LU 972A, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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