Thoracotrema oculatum 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 Thoracotrema according to A. Taeger et al. 2010

See also Rasnitsyn 1988

Sister taxa: Thoracotrema caudatum, Thoracotrema mongolicum, Thoracotrema nebulosum, Thoracotrema obscuripenne, Thoracotrema vitimicum, Thoracotrema zonale

Type specimen: PIN 3559/4572, 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: found only at Bon Tsagaan (PIN collection 3559, outcrop 87/8)

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