The amber specimens, numbers "Tad-42" and "Tad-97" respectively, are both housed in the fossil collection of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Palaeobotany in Lucknow, India.

The holotype is composed of a mostly complete adult, though some areas show distinct compression from the amber after entombment and is of indeterminate sex.

[1] Cambay amber dates to between fifty and fifty-two million years old, placing it in the Early to Mid Ypresian age of the Eocene, and was preserved in a brackish shore environment.

[1] The fossils were first studied by paleoentomologists Michael S. Engel of the American Museum of Natural History and Hukam Singh of the Birbal Sahni Institute of Paleobotany.

The specific epithet ashoki is in honor of paleontologist Ashok Sahni, a colleague of the authors and a "sage of Indian paleontology".