Zippelia Rasnitsyn and Müller 2023 (wood wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Blasticotomidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and P. Müller. 2023. Identity of the insect larva described by Zippel et al. (2022) in the mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber (Hymenoptera, Tenthredinoidea, Blasticotomidae = Xyelotomidae syn. nov.). Palaeoentomology 6:13-16

Parent taxon: Blasticotomidae according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and P. Müller 2023

Sister taxa: Blasticotoma, Blasticotominae, Dahurotominae, Protenthredinidae, Pseudoxyelocerinae, Runaria, Undatominae, Aethotoma, Protenthredo, Vitimilarva

Subtaxa: Zippelia engeli

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Type: Zippelia engeli

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNHM Braunschweig collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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