Chlorepyris gallicus Perrichot and Nel 2008 (flat wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Bethylidae

Alternative combination: Rhabdepyris gallicus

Full reference: V. Perrichot and A. Nel. 2008. Eocene bethylid wasps from French amber (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae). Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen 248:91-101

Belongs to Chlorepyris according to W. D. Colombo et al. 2022

See also Azevedo et al. 2018, Azevedo and Azar 2012, Colombo and Azevedo 2021 and Perrichot and Nel 2008

Sister taxa: Chlorepyris concaptus, Chlorepyris deploegi, Chlorepyris engeli, Chlorepyris hopei, Chlorepyris invelatus, Chlorepyris jouaulti, Chlorepyris mckellari, Chlorepyris meunieri, Chlorepyris neli, Chlorepyris perrichoti, Chlorepyris setosus

Type specimen: MNHN PA 186, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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