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- Title
Vespids from the mid-Cretaceous with club-shaped antennae provide new evidence about the intrafamiliar relationships of Vespidae.
- Authors
Wu, Qiong; Yang, Hongru; Shih, Chungkun; Ren, Dong; Zhao, Yunyun; Gao, Taiping
- Abstract
Three new species of wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) from mid-Cretaceous Myanmar (Burmese) amber, with club-shaped antennae, are assigned to Archaeovespa gen. nov. and provide morphological information for new phylogenetic analyses of Vespidae. Phylogenetic results suggest that Archaeovespa has more affinities with Masarinae than with Protovespinae and, along with Masarinae, composes the sister clade to Polistinae, Eumeninae, Vespinae and Stenogastrinae. New findings indicate that the antennal morphologies of Vespidae diversified significantly during or before the mid-Cretaceous.
- Subjects
VESPIDAE; HORNETS; ANTENNAS (Electronics); HYMENOPTERA; WASPS; NIGHTCLUBS
- Publication
Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 2021, Vol 193, Issue 1, p217
- ISSN
0024-4082
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/zoolinnean/zlaa127