Archaeoserphites engeli Rasnitsyn and Öhm-Kühnle 2020 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Archaeoserphitidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and C. Öhm-Kühnle. 2020. Archaeoserphites engeli sp. nov., the first archaeoserphitid wasp in Burmese amber and first known archaeoserphitid female (Hymenoptera, Archaeoserphitidae). Palaeoentomology 3:235-239

Belongs to Archaeoserphites according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and C. Öhm-Kühnle 2020

Sister taxon: Archaeoserphites melqarti

Type specimen: PIN 5620/78a, 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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