Platyxyela tenuis Zheng et al., 2021

Taxonomy

Sawfly

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Family: Xyelidae Newman, 1834
Genus: Platyxyela
Species: Platyxyela tenuis
Author Citation Zheng et al., 2021

Geological Time Scale

Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Mesozoic
Period: Jurassic
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Middle
International Age: Callovian to Oxfordian

Stratigraphy

Jiulongshan Formation
Daohugou Bed

Provenance

Acquired by: Purchase/Trade

Location

Daohugou (Village)
Ningcheng (County)
Inner Mongolia (Province)
China

• daohugou
• hymenoptera
• jiulongshan
• jurassic
• sawfly
• tff-oilshale-ar2697

Comments

Taxonomy from Fossilworks.org.                                                                                                                                                                               
Etymology: The specific name tenuis, thin, feminine gender of the Latin, referring to the thinness and delicateness of the body.

Diagnosis from Zheng et al.  2021, p. 150: "Forewing long (7.9 mm in length), ovipositor sheath as long as M+Cu and strongly narrowed toward acute apex."

Line drawing from Zheng et al. 2021, p. 152:

 

Identified by Prof. A. Rasnitsyn, Russian Academy of Sciences.

References:

Wang M., Shih C.K. & Ren D. 2012. Platyxyela gen. nov. (Hymenoptera, Xyelidae, Macroxyelinae) from the Middle Jurassic of China. Zootaxa 3456 (1): 82–588.
Zheng Y., Hu H., Chen D., Chen J., Zhang H. & Rasnitsyn A.P. 2021. New fossil records of Xyelidae (Hymenoptera) from the Middle Jurassic of Inner Mongolia, China. European Journal of Taxonomy 733: 146–159.