Caenocholax dominicensis Kathirithamby and Grimaldi 1993 (twisted-winged parasite)

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Full reference: J. Kathirithamby and D. A. Grimaldi. 1993. Remarkable stasis in some Lower Tertiary parasitoids: descriptions, new records and review of Strepsiptera in the Oligo-Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic. Entomologica Scandinavica 24:31-41

Belongs to Caenocholax according to M. Kogan and G. O. Poinar 2019

See also Engel and Huang 2016 and Kathirithamby and Grimaldi 1993

Sister taxa: Caenocholax barkleyi, Caenocholax brodzinskyi, Caenocholax comperei, Caenocholax debachi, Caenocholax flandersi, Caenocholax groehni, Caenocholax mcmurtryi, Caenocholax palusaxus

Type specimen: AMNH DR-8-27, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (AMNH coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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