Rhyssella vera Spasojevic et al. 2018 (ichneumon wasp)

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)

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