Archaeromma chisatoi Aiba and Inose 2024 (false fairy wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Mymarommatidae

Full reference: H. Aiba and H. Inose. 2024. A new false fairy wasp (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea: Mymarommatidae) in Late Cretaceous Iwaki amber from Futaba Group of Iwaki City, Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. Paleontological Research 28:337-344

Belongs to Archaeromma according to H. Aiba and H. Inose 2024

Sister taxa: Archaeromma carnifex, Archaeromma gibsoni, Archaeromma hispanicum, Archaeromma japonicum, Archaeromma mandibulatum, Archaeromma masneri, Archaeromma minutissimum, Archaeromma nearcticum, Archaeromma senonicum, Archaeromma trigonokephalion

Type specimen: FM-N202200057, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Iwaki amber, which is in a Coniacian terrestrial amber in the Tamayama Formation of Japan.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Iwaki amber

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