Hymenoptera (wasps,bees and ants) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A review of the fauna |
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| Authors: | Qi Zhang Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn Bo Wang Haichun Zhang |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Geography and Tourism, Qufu Normal University, Rizhao, 276826, China;2. State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing, 210008, China;3. A.A. Borissiak Palaeontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117647, Moscow, Russia;4. Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK;5. Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Depositional Mineralization & Sedimentary Minerals, Shandong University of Science and Technology, Qingdao, Shandong, 266590, China |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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| Keywords: | Burmese amber Cretaceous Hymenoptera |
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