Insecta - Hymenoptera - Praeaulacidae
Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1972. Late Jurassic hymenopterous insects (Preaulacidae) of Karatau. Paleontological Journal 6:62-77
Belongs to Praeaulacus according to L. F. Li et al. 2018
See also Rasnitsyn 1972
Sister taxa: Praeaulacus afflatus, Praeaulacus byssinus, Praeaulacus cephalotus, Praeaulacus cubocephalus, Praeaulacus daohugouensis, Praeaulacus elegans, Praeaulacus exquisitus, Praeaulacus leptogaster, Praeaulacus obscurus, Praeaulacus obtutus, Praeaulacus orientalis, Praeaulacus patiens, Praeaulacus ramosus, Praeaulacus rectus, Praeaulacus robustus, Praeaulacus scabratus, Praeaulacus sculptus, Praeaulacus sharteg, Praeaulacus subrhombeus, Praeaulacus tenellus, Praeaulacus ventricosus
Type specimen: PIN 2904/1224, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2904), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakhstan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Karatau-Mikhailovka (PIN collection 2904)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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