Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 48B(1-2) 2005

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VOL 48B(1-2) 2005

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Hymenoptera, Apocrita, Vespomorpha, Aculeata, Euaculeata, Tiphiiformes, phylogeny, new species, Cretaceous, Albian, Myanmar

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A primitive sapygid wasp in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae)

• Daniel J. BENNETT
• Michael S. ENGEL

Abstract:

A primitive wasp of the family Sapygidae is described and figured from a male preserved in mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian, ca. 100 Ma) amber from Myanmar. The fossil is described as a new genus and species, Cretosapyga resinicola, and a new subfamily, Cretosapyginae, is proposed. The phylogenetic placement of the fossil is discussed. Cretosapyga is the oldest and first formally described fossil for the lineage, the only other record being a putative species of Sapyga (Sapyginae) in Baltic amber (Eocene: Lutetian, ca. 45 Ma).