The Wasp Family Rhopalosomatidae in Mid-Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)

Michael S. Engel

doi:10.2317/JKES-712.11.1

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1 July 2008 The Wasp Family Rhopalosomatidae in Mid-Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)

Michael S. Engel

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J. of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81(3):168-174 (2008). https://doi.org/10.2317/JKES-712.11.1

Abstract

The first Cretaceous fossil of the wasp family Rhopalosomatidae (Aculeata: Euaculeata: Vespoidea) is described and figured from a male preserved in Burmese amber. Eorhopalosoma gorgyra Engel, new genus and species, is the first rhopalosomatid discovered in amber and the second—but first definitive—member of the family from the Cretaceous. The new species is distinguished from its modern counterparts. The modern genus Olixon Cameron is transferred to a separate new subfamily, Olixoninae.

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Michael S. Engel "The Wasp Family Rhopalosomatidae in Mid-Cretaceous Amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea)," Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81(3), 168-174, (1 July 2008). https://doi.org/10.2317/JKES-712.11.1

Accepted: 1 February 2008; Published: 1 July 2008

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