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†Diversinitus attenboroughi
Haas, Burks and Krogmann

(Life: Kingdom: Metazoa (animals); Phylum: Arthropoda; Class: Hexapoda; Order: Hymenoptera; Superfamily: Chalcidoidea; Family: Diversinitidae; Genus: Diversinitus)

Classification

†Diversinitus attenboroughi Haas, Burks and Krogmann 2018
Distribution Only known from Burmese amber from Myanmar. Dating to the late upper-Cretaceous Cenomanian period (about 99 Ma), Diversinitidae represent some of the earliest known members of Chalcidoidea (Haas, 2025).
Biology Unknown.

References

Haas M, Burks RA, Krogmann L. 2018. A new lineage of Cretaceous jewel wasps (Chalcidoidea: Diversinitidae)". PeerJ. 6: e4633. doi:10.7717/peerj.4633

Haas M. 2025. Diversinitidae, Chapter 23, pp. 310-314 in J.M. Heraty and J.B. Woolley (eds), Chalcidoidea of the World, CABI Press, Oxford, UK. https://doi.org/10.1079/9781800623545.0023

UCD Community. 2023. Universal Chalcidoidea Database Website. https://ucd.chalcid.org.

Credits

Photographs © Steve Compton (Leeds University)

Web author Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

 

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