Ascogaster (Ascogaster) pygmaea Belokobylskij 2014 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae

Full reference: S. A. Belokobylskij. 2014. Family Braconidae Nees, 1812. The wasps, bees and ants (Insecta: Vespida=Hymenoptera) from the Insect Limestone (Late Eocene) of the Isle of Wight, UK. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 104

Belongs to Ascogaster (Ascogaster) according to S. A. Belokobylskij 2014

Sister taxa: Ascogaster (Ascogaster) brodiei, Ascogaster (Ascogaster) yulei

Type specimen: BMNH In.17379, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection), which is in a Priabonian lagoonal/restricted shallow subtidal lime mudstone in the Bouldnor Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (A'Court Smith collection)

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