†Orussus juttagroehnae Vilhelmsen and Perrichot 2024 (parasitic wood wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Orussidae
Full reference: L. Vilhelmsen and V. Perrichot. 2024. Taxonomic names, in Echoes from the Cretaceous: new fossils shed light on the evolution of host detection and concealed ovipositor apparatus in the parasitoid wasp superfamily Orussoidea (Hymenoptera). Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 202(zlae021)
Belongs to Orussus according to L. Vilhelmsen and V. Perrichot 2024
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: GPIH 5081, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection
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