Dendrocerus ypresicus Engel 2025 (wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Megaspilidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel. 2025. New ceraphronoid wasps in Cretaceous and Cenozoic ambers from Lebanon, New Jersey, and India (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronoidea). Palaeoworld 34(200993)

Belongs to Dendrocerus according to M. S. Engel 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Tad-114, an exoskeleton (forewing). Its type locality is Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection), which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in India.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Cambay amber, Tadkeshwar lignite mine (AMNH/BSIPL collection)

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