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Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Xiede (Eocene, central Tibetan Plateau): systematics and paleoecological implications

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  • 1. CAS Key Laboratory of Tropical Forest Ecology, Xishuangbanna Tropical Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Mengla 666303, Yunnan (China) and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049 (China) and CR2P (Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris), MNHN, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France) and State Key Laboratory of Biocontrol, School of Ecology, Sun Yat-sen University, 518000, Shenzhen (China)
  • 2. Universidade de Brasília, Instituto de Ciências Biológicas, Departamento de Zoologia, Brasília 70910-900 (Brazil)
  • 3. Universität Bonn, Bonn D-5311 (Germany)
  • 4. State Key Laboratory of Oil and Gas Reservoir Geology and Exploitation & Institute of Sedimentary Geology, Chengdu University of Technology, Chengdu 610059 (China)
  • 5. CR2P (Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris), MNHN - CNRS - Sorbonne Université, case postale 38, 57 rue Cuvier, 75231 Paris cedex 05 (France)

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Xu, Xiao-Ting, Waichert, Cecília, Deng, Wei-Yu-Dong, Su, Tao, Béthoux, Olivier (2025): Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) from Xiede (Eocene, central Tibetan Plateau): systematics and paleoecological implications. Geodiversitas 47 (6): 313-325, DOI: 10.5252/geodiversitas2025v47a6, URL: https://sciencepress.mnhn.fr/sites/default/files/articles/pdf/geodiversitas2025v47a6.pdf

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