Aptenoperissus etius Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle 2018 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Aptenoperissidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and C. Öhm-Kühnle. 2018. Three new female Aptenoperissus from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera, Stephanoidea, Aptenoperissidae): Unexpected diversity of paradoxical wasps suggests insular features of source biome. Cretaceous Research 91:168-175

Belongs to Aptenoperissus according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and C. Öhm-Kühnle 2018

Sister taxa: Aptenoperissus amabilis, Aptenoperissus burmanicus, Aptenoperissus delicatus, Aptenoperissus formosus, Aptenoperissus magnifemoris, Aptenoperissus pusillus, Aptenoperissus zonalis

Type specimen: PIN 5620/2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (PIN collection 5620), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (PIN collection 5620)

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