Zippelia engeli 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

Belongs to Zippelia according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and P. Müller 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SNHMB.G 8194, a nymph (larva). Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (SNHM Braunschweig collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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