Insecta - Hymenoptera - Karatavitidae

Full reference: A. P. Rasnitsyn and H. Zhang. 2010. Early evolution of Apocrita (Insecta, Hymenoptera) as indicated by new findings in the Middle Jurassic of Daohugou, Northeast China. Acta Geologica Sinica 84(4):834-873

Belongs to Postxiphydroides according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and H. Zhang 2010

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NND0540/NIGP 151933, an exoskeleton (male wasp nearly complete). Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

Ecology:

Average measurements (in mm): body 9.69 x 2.69, forewing 7.46 x 2.60, hindwing 4.65 x 1.74, ovipositor length 2.80