Insecta - Hymenoptera - Brachycleistogastridae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn. 1975. Hymenoptera Apocrita of Mesozoic. Transactions of the Palaeontological Institute Academy of Sciences of the USSR 147:1-134

Belongs to Brachycleistogaster according to A. P. Rasnitsyn 1975

Sister taxa: Brachycleistogaster brachyura, Brachycleistogaster jurassica, Brachycleistogaster karatavica, Brachycleistogaster nana, Brachycleistogaster nigripes, Brachycleistogaster nigritibialis, Brachycleistogaster pallipes, Brachycleistogaster pentedecamera, Brachycleistogaster scoliura, Brachycleistogaster tetradecatoma, Brachycleistogaster tredecatoma

Type specimen: PIN 2452/470, an exoskeleton (female). Its type locality is Karatau-Karabastau (PIN collection 2452), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine siltstone in the Karabastau Formation of Kazakstan.

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Average measurements (in mm): body length 4.50, forewing length 2.20, ovipositor length 1.20