Ghilarella mercurialis Rasnitsyn 1988 (stem sawfly)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Sepulcidae

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 Ghilarella according to D. S. Kopylov and A. P. Rasnitsyn 2017

See also Rasnitsyn 1988 and Taeger et al. 2010

Sister taxa: Ghilarella alexialis, Ghilarella elegantula, Ghilarella kopylovi, Ghilarella masculina, Ghilarella nivalis

Type specimen: PIN 3559/4461, 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.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Mongolia (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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