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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Family: | Metapelmatidae |
| Genus: | Metapelma |
| Species: | †M. archetypon
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| †Metapelma archetypon Gibson, 2009
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Metapelma archetypon is an extinct species of parasitic wasp in the Metapelmatidae genus Metapelma.[1] The species is solely known from the Early Eocene[2] Baltic amber deposits in the Baltic Sea region of Europe.[1] Of the thirty seven described species in the genus Metapelma, M. archetypon is the only species known from the fossil record.[1]
- ^ a b c Gary A. P. Gibson (2009). "Description of three new genera and four new species of Neanastatinae (Hymenoptera, Eupelmidae) from Baltic amber, with discussion of their relationships to extant taxa". ZooKeys (20): 161. doi:10.3897/zookeys.20.161. Archived from the original on 2010-09-22. Retrieved 2010-03-30.
- ^ Alexander P. Wolfe; Ralf Tappert; Karlis Muehlenbachs; Marc Boudreau; Ryan C. McKellar; James F. Basinger; Amber Garrett (2009). "A new proposal concerning the botanical origin of Baltic amber" (PDF). Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 276 (1672): 3403โ3412. doi:10.1098/rspb.2009.0806. PMC 2817186. PMID 19570786.