Insecta - Hymenoptera - Ephialtitidae

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 Proapocritus according to A. P. Rasnitsyn and H. Zhang 2010

Sister taxa: Proapocritus atropus, Proapocritus densipediculus, Proapocritus elegans, Proapocritus formosus, Proapocritus longantennatus, Proapocritus praecursor

Type specimen: NND0041/NIGP 151937, an exoskeleton (incomplete wasp). Its type locality is Daohugou (NIGP collection), which is in a Callovian/Oxfordian lacustrine - large shale in the Daohugou Formation of China.

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Average measurements (in mm): forewing 8.40 x 2.20, hindwing 5.40 x 1.50