Phoriostephanus exilis Engel and Huang 2016 (crown wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stephanidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and D. Y. Huang. 2016. A new crown wasp in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae). Cretaceous Research 69:56-61

Belongs to Phoriostephanus according to M. S. Engel and D. Y. Huang 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 164783, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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