Ocymoromelitta sorella Engel 2002 (sweat bee)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Halictidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2002. Halictine bees from the Eocene-Oligocene boundary of Florissant, Colorado (Hymenoptera: Halictidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 225:251-273

Belongs to Ocymoromelitta according to M. S. Engel 2021

See also Engel 2002

Sister taxa: Ocymoromelitta florissantella, Ocymoromelitta miocenica

Type specimen: MCZ 3946, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Florissant (MCZ Collection), which is in a Chadronian lacustrine - large shale in the Florissant Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Florissant (MCZ Collection)

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