†Taphaeus obscurus Belokobylskij and Zaldívar-Riverón 2024 (wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Braconidae
Full reference: S. A. Belokobylskij and A. Zaldívar-Riverón. 2024. Taxonomic names, in New species of braconid parasitoid wasps from the subfamilies Doryctinae and Brachistinae from late Eocene Baltic amber. Palaeoentomology 7:645-658
Belongs to Taphaeus according to S. A. Belokobylskij and A. Zaldívar-Riverón 2024
Sister taxa: Taphaeus cervicalis, Taphaeus longicornis, Taphaeus praecox, Taphaeus verus
Type specimen: UNAM JDC 8800, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (UNAM collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (UNAM collection)
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