Year: 1973
Type: article
Abstract: It seems incredible that only I6 years ago no aculeate Hymeno.pternwere known ro.m the Mesozoic.In I957 Sha.r:ov described Cretavus from the Upper Cretaceous, an enigmatic o.rm almost certainly belonging to the Scolioidea.Ten years later Wilson, Carpenter, and Brown described a beautifully preserved worker ant from Upper Cretaceous amber, and in I969 I described two dis- similar wa.sps from the Upper' Cretaceous and an undoubted aculeate wing from the Lower Cretaceous.Thus within a ew years it be- came evident that the Aculeata were well diversified by the end o the Mesozoic.Recent finds in the U.S.S.R. have more than co.n- firmed that impression, and When (ully described will document a r.adiation so pronounced that events in the Tertiary will appear anticlimactic.It is the purpose o. this brie report to provide names and de- scriptions or several striking wasps occurring in Upper Cretaceous amber from the Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia.These specimens were
Source: Psyche A Journal of Entomology
DOI: 10.1155/1973/16876
Author: Howard E. Evans
Institution: Colorado State University
Language: English
Topic: Fossil Insects in Amber
Domain: Life Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
Estimated APC paid: $1,000
OpenAlex ID: W1995357731