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Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: Fossil evidence from amber

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Rodriguez, Juanita, Waichert, Cecilia, von Dohlen, Carol D., Poinar, George, Jr., and Pitts, James P.

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Spider wasps had long been proposed to originate in the mid-Cretaceous based on the Burmese amber fossil Bryopompilus interfector Engel and Grimaldi, 2006. We performed a morphological examination of this fossil and determined it does not belong to Pompilidae or any other described hymenopteran family. Instead, we place it in...

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wasps: Fossil evidence from amber Juanita Rodriguez, Cecilia Waichert, Carol D. Von Dohlen, George