†Rhyssella vera Spasojevic et al. 2018 (ichneumon wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae
Full reference: T. Spasojevic, S. Wedmann, and S. Klopfstein. 2018. Seven remarkable new fossil species of parasitoid wasps (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) from the Eocene Messel Pit. PLoS One 13(6):e0197477
Belongs to Rhyssella according to S. Klopfstein and T. Spasojevic 2019
See also Spasojevic et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: SF MeI 8814, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Grube Messel Pit (Behnke collection), which is in a MP 11 crater lake claystone in the Messel Formation of Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Grube Messel Pit (Behnke collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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