Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A review of the fauna

The Burmese amber assemblage of Hymenoptera with its 47 constituent families is now the richest in Cretaceous. A collection of Burmite (Burmese amber) from the Hukawng Valley, Myanmar at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was examined, revealing that Burm...

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Published inProceedings of the Geologists' Association Vol. 129; no. 6; pp. 736 - 747
Main Authors Zhang, Qi, Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P., Wang, Bo, Zhang, Haichun
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Elsevier Ltd 01.12.2018
Subjects
Burmese amber
Cretaceous
Hymenoptera
Cretaceous
Hymenoptera
Burmese amber
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ISSN0016-7878
DOI10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.06.004

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Summary:The Burmese amber assemblage of Hymenoptera with its 47 constituent families is now the richest in Cretaceous. A collection of Burmite (Burmese amber) from the Hukawng Valley, Myanmar at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences was examined, revealing that Burmite inclusions contain a very highly diverse hymenopteran fauna with as many as ten families found new for the Burmese fossil assemblage. The mid-Cretaceous hymenopteran fauna of Burmese amber is revised at the family level. A high level of the first family occurrences and endemism is demonstrated suggestive of an insular syndrome affected the mid-Cretaceous Burmese biome, as well as somewhat contradictory features in composition of the hymenopteran families there.
ISSN:0016-7878
DOI:10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.06.004