Caenocholax palusaxus Antell and Kathirithamby 2016 (twisted-winged parasite)

Insecta - Strepsiptera - Myrmecolacidae

Full reference: G. S. Antell and J. Kathirithamby. 2016. The first twisted-wing parasitoids (Insecta: Strepsiptera) from the early Eocene Green River Formation of Colorado. Bulletin of the Peabody Museum of Natural History 57:165-174

Belongs to Caenocholax according to G. S. Antell and J. Kathirithamby 2016

Sister taxa: Caenocholax barkleyi, Caenocholax brodzinskyi, Caenocholax comperei, Caenocholax debachi, Caenocholax dominicensis, Caenocholax flandersi, Caenocholax groehni, Caenocholax mcmurtryi

Type specimen: YPM IP 320328, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Gus' Pit, west of Rio Blanco store, which is in a Ypresian lacustrine - large mudstone in the Green River Formation of Colorado.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Gus' Pit, west of Rio Blanco store

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