Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Alternative combination: Diospiloides hooleyi
Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil Arthropods in the British Museum, V. Oligocene Hymenoptera from the Isle of Wight. Annals & Magazine of Natural History, Series 9 7:1-25
Belongs to Microtypus according to S. A. Belokobylskij 2014
See also Cockerell 1921
Sister taxa: Microtypus brevicornis, Microtypus eocenus, Microtypus grandis, Microtypus laeviusculus, Microtypus latipennis, Microtypus longicaudatus, Microtypus longicornis, Microtypus obliquus, Microtypus terebrator, Microtypus triangulifer, Microtypus verticalis
Type specimen: BMNH H. 882, a forewing. Its type locality is Bembridge Marls (Hooley coll), 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 (Hooley coll)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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