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Article: False fairy wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea)

Publication: Palaeontology
Volume: 54
Part: 3
Publication Date: May 2011
Page(s): 511 – 523
Author(s): Jaime Ortega-Blanco, Enrique Peñalver, Xavier Delclòs and Michael S. Engel
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ORTEGA-BLANCO, J., PEÑALVER, E., DELCLÃ’S, X., ENGEL, M. S. 2011. False fairy wasps in Early Cretaceous amber from Spain (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Palaeontology, 54, 3, 511–523.

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