Ampulicomorpha janzeni (lat.) Is a fossil species of the genus Ampulicomorpha from the family Embolemidae . Burmese amber, Cretaceous ( Cenomanian , about 99 Ma). Myanmar [1] .
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Content
- 1 Description
- 2 notes
- 3 Literature
- 4 References
Description
The winged female is about 3 mm long, and the winged male is 1.7 mm long. The species was first described by female fingerprints in 2014 by Italian hymenopterologist Massimo Olmi ( Massimo Olmi ; Tropical Entomology Research Center, Viterbo, Italy ), Russian paleoentomologist A. P. Rasnitsyn ( PIN RAS , Moscow ), South African entomologist Denis Brothers ( South Africa ) and Adalgisa Guglielmino (Department of Agriculture, Forests, Nature and Energy, University of Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy). The species name was given in honor of Mr Jens-Wilhelm Janzen (Seevetal, Germany ), who discovered one of the type specimens ( paratype ) [1] .
Two fossil species of the genus Ampulicomorpha were previously known: the Eocene Ampulicomorpha succinalis Brues, 1933 (Baltic amber; 34–37 Ma) (Rovno amber; 34–37 Ma) and the Lower Cretaceous Ampulicomorpha perialla (Ortega-Blanco etal., 2011) (= Embolemus periallus ) (Penacerrada amber, Spain; Albian ; about 110 Ma). It differs from the closely related species A. succinalis Brues, 1933 in 5-segmented mandibular palps (they consist of 6 segments). Earlier, 3 species from a close family of Dryinidae were described from Burmese amber: Anteon olmii Engel, 2003 , Hybristodryinus resinicolus Engel, 2005 and Ponomarenkoa ellenbergeri Olmi, Xu & He in Xu et al. , 2013 [1] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Massimo Olmi, Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn, Denis J. Brothers & Adalgisa Guglielmino. The first fossil Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Burmese amber (Myanmar) and Orapa Kimberlitic deposits (Botswana) and their phylogenetic significance (Eng.) // Journal of Systematic Palaeontology: Journal. - London: The Trustees of the Natural History Museum, 2014.DOI : 10.1080 / 14772019.2013.829533
Literature
- Carpenter, JM & Grimaldi, DA (1997). Social wasps in amber. American Museum Novitates, 3203, 1-7. http://digitallibrary.amnh.org/dspace/handle/2246/3605
Links
- Ampulicomorpha on the Encyclopedia of Life eol.org website (Retrieved February 23, 2014)
- Ampulicomorpha on the Paleobiology Database website (Retrieved February 23, 2014)