ammonites
Pimpla decessa Scudder 1877 (ichneumon wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ichneumonidae

Full reference: S. H. Scudder. 1877. The insects of the Tertiary beds at Quesnel (British Colombia). Report of Progress of the Geological Survey of Canada 1875-1876 266-280

Belongs to Pimpla according to S. H. Scudder 1890

Sister taxa: Pimpla anomalensis, Pimpla antiqua, Pimpla antiquus, Pimpla appendigera, Pimpla aquensis, Pimpla bibosa, Pimpla eocenica, Pimpla indura, Pimpla morleyi, Pimpla morticina, Pimpla rediviva, Pimpla revelata, Pimpla saussurei, Pimpla saxea, Pimpla senecta, Pimpla senilis, Pimpla seyrigi

Type specimen: GSC 9a, an exoskeleton (fragment of a body with wings). Its type locality is Quesnel, which is in an Oligocene terrestrial horizon in Canada.

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Average measurements (in mm): body length 8.50, wing 7.70 x 2.60