Archaeagaon minutum Donisthorpe 1920 (fig wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Agaonidae

Alternative combination: Ponera minuta

Full reference: H. S.t. J. Donisthorpe. 1920. British Oligocene Ants. Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 6:81-94

Belongs to Archaeagaon according to S. G. Compton 2014

See also Bolton 2012, Donisthorpe 1920 and Schmidt and Shattuck 2014

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH I.9734, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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