Bocchus primaevus Martins and Melo 2019 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Dryinidae

Full reference: A. L. Martins and G. A. R. Melo. 2019. The oldest confirmed fossil of Bocchinae (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae), with description of a new species of Bocchus Ashmead from Baltic amber. Historical Biology 33:268-271

Belongs to Bocchus according to E. E. Perkovsky et al. 2020

See also Martins and Melo 2019

Sister taxa: Bocchus rex, Bocchus schmalhauseni, Bocchus vetustus

Type specimen: DZUP Bal-022, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (DZUP UFPR collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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