Prolyda elegantula Wang et al., 2016

Taxonomy

Sawfly

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda Latreille 1829
Class: Insecta Linnaeus 1758
Order: Hymenoptera Linnaeus, 1758
Family: incertae sedis
Genus: Prolyda
Species: Prolyda elegantula
Author Citation Wang et al., 2016

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

Dimensions

Length: 12 mm

Location

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

• daohugou
• jiulongshan
• jurassic
• ningcheng
• sawfly
• TFF-oilshale-Ar2847

Comments

Taxonomy from Wang et al., 2016.
Amended diagnosis from Wang et al., 2016, p. 73; "Head massive, circular or cube-like; mandibles curved, strong and sickle-like; pronotum short and wide; the first antennal flagellomere equal to head in length, but eight times as long as the second flagellomere; forewing pterostigma variable, completely sclerotized or partly sclerotized, or just membranous; M diverging from M+Cu at much larger angle than Cu; 1-RS proclival or somewhat vertical; angle between 1-M and RS+M almost 90°; 1cu-a distal to the middle of cell 1mcu or located at middle; 2r-rs almost in line with 2r-m; hind wing with 1r-m rather long, as long as or slightly shorter than 1-M."

Line drawing from Wang et al. 2016, p. 77:

References:
Wang C, Shih C, Rasnitsyn AP, Wang M. (2016) Two new species of Prolyda from the Middle Jurassic of China (Hymenoptera, Pamphilioidea). Zookeys. 2016 Feb 26;(569):71-80. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.569.7249. PMID: 27110151; PMCID: PMC4829680.