Insecta - Hymenoptera - Cephidae
Alternative combination: Mesocephus ghilarovi
Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1988. Sepul'ki i proiskhozhdenie steblevykh pilil'shchikov (Hymenoptera: Cephidae, Sepulcidae). Trudy Vsesoiuznogo Entomologicheskogo Obshchestva 70:68-73
Belongs to Cuspilongus according to D. S. Kopylov and A. P. Rasnitsyn 2016
See also Archibald and Rasnitsyn 2015, Rasnitsyn 1988 and Taeger et al. 2010
Sister taxon: Cuspilongus cachecreekensis
Type specimen: PIN 3559/652, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8), which is in an Aptian lacustrine siliciclastic in the Dzun-Bain Formation of Mongolia.
Distribution: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8)
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