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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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