†Burmastephanus breviceps Ge and Tan 2025 (crown wasp)
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Insecta - Hymenoptera - Stephanidae
Full reference: S. Ge and J. Tan. 2025. Taxonomic names, in Phylogenetic bridging by Cretaceous Stephanidae (Hymenoptera: Stephanoidea): Burmese amber fossils highlight early diverging lineages. Insect Systematics and Diversity 9(ixaf038)
Belongs to Burmastephanus according to S. Ge and J. Tan 2025
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: BFUFP-Ste202403, an exoskeleton (forewing). Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Beijing Forestry University BFU collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Beijing Forestry University BFU collection)
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