Protopolistes oblitus Cockerell 1921 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Vespidae

Alternative combination: Polybia oblita

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1921. Fossil arthropods in the British Museum - VII. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Ninth Series 8:541-545

Belongs to Protopolistes according to A. V. Antropov 2014

See also Cockerell 1921

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: BMNH In.20530, 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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