Wasp in amber.
A wasp is any insect of the narrow-waisted suborder Apocrita of the order Hymenoptera which is neither a bee nor an ant; this excludes the broad-waisted sawflies (Symphyta), which look somewhat like wasps, but are in a separate suborder. The wasps do not constitute a clade, a complete natural group with a single ancestor, as bees and ants are deeply nested within the wasps, having evolved from wasp ancestors. Wasps that are members of the clade Aculeata can sting their prey.
We have wasps with stings and stingless in amber
If you are looking for a specific wasp or a specific stage of development or are looking for wasps infected with endo or ecto parasites or interspecies interaction let us know and we will check to see if there are specimens matching your requirements available.
Hymenoptera (39f., 62g., 75sp.)
Ampulicidae= The Ampulicidae, or cockroach wasps, are a small (about 170 species), primarily tropical family of sphecoid wasps, all of which use various cockroaches as prey
Apodolichurus diaphanus Antropov, 2000
Apodolichurus sphaerocephalus Antropov, 2000
Cretampulex gracilis Antropov, 2000
Mendampulex monilicularis Antropov, 2000
†Aptenoperissidae (extinct wasps)
Aptenoperissus burmanicus Rasnitsyn & Poinar, 2016
Bethylidae - The Bethylidae are a family of aculeate wasps in the superfamily Chrysidoidea. As a family, their biology ranges between parasitoid wasps and hunting wasps.
Apenesia electriphila Cockerell, 1917
Bethylitella cylindrella Cockerell, 1917
Epyris atavellus Cockerell, 1920
Sclerodermus quadridentatum Cockerell, 1917
Braconidae
Archaeorhyssalus subsolanus Engel, 2016
Rhetinorhyssalus morticinus Engel, 2016
†Bryopompilidae
Bryopompilus interfector Engel & Grimaldi, 2006
Chalcididae - The Chalcididae are a moderate-sized family within the Chalcidoidea, composed mostly of parasitoids and a few hyperparasitoids.
Crabronidae
Burmastatus triangularis Antropov, 2000
Cretospilomena familiaris Antropov, 2000
Prolemistus apiformis Antropov, 2000
Diapriidae
Dryinidae
Burmadryinus cenomanianus Olmi, Xu & Guglielmino, 2014
Burmanteon olmii Engel, 2003
Hybristodryinus resinicolus Engel, 2005
Ponomarenkoa ellenbergeri Olmi, Xu & He, 2013
Pseudodryinus burmensis Olmi, Xu & Guglielmino, 2014
Embolemidae
Ampulicomorpha janzeni Olmi, Rasnitsyn, Brothers & Guglielmino, 2014
Evaniidae
Cretevania bechlyi Jennings, Krogmann & Mew, 2013
Mesevania swinhoei Basibuyuk & Rasnitsyn, 2000
Sorellevania deansi Engel, 2006
†Falsiformicidae
†Gallorommatidae
Galloroma kachinensis Engel & Grimaldi, 2007
Gasteruptiidae (=Aulacidae)
Electrofoenus gracilipes Cockerell, 1917
Hypselogastrion simplex Engel & Wang, 2016
Hyptiogastrites electrinus Cockerell, 1917
Protofoenus swinhoei Cockerell, 1917
Ichneumonidae
Caloichneumon perrarus Li, Kopylov, Shih & Ren, 2016
Novichneumon longus Li, Kopylov, Shih & Ren, 2016
†Maimetshidae
Burmaimetsha concava Perrichot, 2013
Maimetshasia kachinensis Perrichot, 2013
Megalyridae
Megaspilidae
†Melittosphecidae
Melittosphex burmensis Poinar & Danforth, 2006
Mymaridae
Myanmymar aresconoides Huber, 2011
Mymarommatidae
Archaeromma gibsoni Engel & Grimaldi, 2007
†Othniodellithidae
Othniodellitha mantichora Engel & Huang, 2016
Pelecinidae
Abropelecinus tytthus Guo, Shih & Ren, 2016
Brachypelecinus euthyntus Guo, Shih & Ren, 2016
Zoropelecinus zigrasi Engel & Grimaldi, 2013
Platygastridae
Cascoscelio incassus Poinar & Buckley, 2011
†Praeaulacidae
Habraulacus zhaoi Li, Rasnitsyn, Shih & Ren, 2015
Rhopalosomatidae
Eorhopalosoma goryra Engel, 2008
Sapygidae
Cretosapyga resincola Bennett & Engel, 2005
Scelionidae
Geoscelio mckellari Engel & Huang, 2016
Scolebythidae
Siccibythus musculosus Cockx & McKellar, 2016
†Serphitidae
Serphites sp.
Sierolomorphidae
†Spathiopterygidae
Diaspathion ortegai Engel & Huang, 2015
Sphecidae
Stephanidae
Kronostephanus zigrasi Engel & Grimaldi, 2013
Phoriostephanus exilis Engel & Huang, 2016
†Stigmaphronidae
Burmaphron tridentatum Engel & Grimaldi, 2009
Burmaphron prolatum Engel & Grimaldi, 2009
†Syspastoxyelidae
Syspastoxyela rhaphidia Engel & Huang, 2016
Tiphiidae
Thanatotiphia nyx Engel, Ortega-Blanco & Bennett, 2009
Vespidae
Family incertae sedis
Cirrosphex admirabilis Antropov, 2000
Trigampulex pervetus (Cockerell, 1917)
Antropov, A.V. 2000. Digger wasps (Hymenoptera, Sphecidae) in Burmese amber. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series, 56(1): 59-77.
Basibuyuk, H.H., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Fitton, M.G. & Quicke, D.L.J. 2000. An archaic new genus of Evaniidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) and implications for the biology of ancestral evanioids. Bulletin of the Natural History Museum, Geology Series, 56 (1), 53-58.
Bennett, D.J. & Engel, M.S. 2005. A primitive sapygid wasp in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Sapygidae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia, 48B, 1-9.
Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2006b. The first Cretaceous spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 79(4), 359-368.
Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2007. New false fairy wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Mymarommatoidea). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 110, 159-168.
Perrichot, V. 2013. New maimetshid wasps in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Annales de Paléontologie, 99, 67-77.
Ohl, M. 2004. The first fossil representative of the wasp genus Dolichurus, with a review of fossil Ampulicidae (Hymenoptera: Apoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 77(4), 332-342.
Olmi, M., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Brothers, D.J. & Guglielmino, A. 2014. The first fossil Embolemidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Burmese amber (Myanmar) and Orapa Kimberlitic deposits (Botswana) and their phylogenetic significance. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 12 (6), 623-635. Corrigendum, p. 759.
Olmi, M., Xu, Z. & Guglielmino, A. 2014. Descriptions of new fossil taxa of Dryinidae (Hymenoptera: Chrysidoidea) from Burmese amber (Myanmar). Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae, 54 (2), 703-714.
Li, L., Kopylov, D.S., Shih, C. & Ren, D. 2016 (on-line). The first record of Ichneumonidae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) from the Upper Cretaceous of Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 70, 152-162.
Li, L., Rasnitsyn, A.P., Shih, C. & Ren, D. 2015. A new genus and species of Praeaulacidae (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea) from Upper Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research, 55, 19-24.
Jennings, J.T., Austin, A.D. & Stevens, N.B. 2004. Hyptiogastrites electrinus Cockerell, 1917, from Myanmar (Burmese) amber: redescription and its placement within the Evanioidea (Insecta: Hymenoptera). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2(2), 127-132.
Jennings, J.T., Krogmann, L. & Mew, S.L. 2013. Cretevania bechlyi sp. nov. from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Evaniidae). Zootaxa, 3609(1), 91-95.
Engel, M.S. & Wang, B. 2016a. The first Oriental protorhyssaline wasp (Hymenoptera: Braconidae): A
new genus and species in Upper Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 63, 28-32.
Engel, M.S. & Wang, B. 2016b. A plesiomorphic gasteruptiid wasp in Cenomanian amber from
Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Gasteruptiidae). Cretaceous Research, 63, 177-182.
Engel, M.S., Ortega-Blanco, J. & Bennett, D.J. 2009. A remarkable tiphiiform wasp in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Tiphiidae). Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science, 112, 1-6.
Engel, M.S., Huang, D., Alqarni, A.S. & Cai, C. 2016a. A remarkable evanioid wasp in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Evanioidea). Cretaceous Research, 60, 121-127.
Engel, M.S., Huang, D., Alqarni, A.S. & Cai, C. 2016b. An unusual new lineage of sawflies (Hymenoptera) in Upper Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 60, 281-286.
Engel, M.S., Huang, D., Alqarni, A.S., Cai, C., Alvarado, M., Breitkreuz, L.C.V. & Azar, D. 2016 (on-line). An apterous scelionid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Scelionidae). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 16, 5-11.
Engel, M.S., Huang, D., Azar, D., Nel, A., Davis, S.R., Alvarado, M. & Breitkreuz, L.C.V. 2015. The wasp family Spathiopterygidae in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Diaprioidea). Comptes Rendus Palevol, 14 (2), 95-100.
Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A. & Ortega-Blanco, J. 2013a. A stephanid wasp in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae), with comments on the antiquity of the hymenopteran radiation. Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 86 (3), 244-252.
Engel, M.S., Grimaldi, D.A. & Ortega-Blanco, J. 2013b. Zoropelecinus zigrasi, a pelecinid wasp in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae). Novitates Paleoentomologicae, No. 4, 10pp.
Engel, M.S. & Huang, D. 2016 (on-line). A new crown wasp in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Stephanidae). Cretaceous Research, 69, 56-61.
Engel, M.S. & Grimaldi, D.A. 2009. Diversity and phylogeny of the Mesozoic wasp family Stigmaphronidae (Hymenoptera: Ceraphronidae). Denisia, 26, 53-86.
Engel, M.S. 2016a. Notes on Cretaceous amber Braconidae (Hymenoptera), with descriptions of two new genera. Novitates Paleoentomologicae, No. 15, 7pp.
Engel, M.S. 2008a. The wasp family Rhopalosomatidae in Mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespidoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 81(3), 168-174.
Engel, M.S. 2003. An anteonine wasp in Cenomanian-Albian amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, 76, 616-621.
Cockx, P.F.D. & McKellar, R.C. 2016. First record of the family Scolebythidae (Hymenoptera) in
mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 67, 133-139.
Rasnitsyn, A.P., Poinar, G.Jr. & Brown, A.E. 2016 (on-line). Bizzare wingless parasitic wasp from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera, Ceraphronoidea, Aptenoperissidae fam. nov.). Cretaceous Research, 69, 113-118.
Poinar G.Jr. & Huber, J.T. 2011. A new genus of fossil Mymaridae (Hymenoptera) from Cretaceous amber and key to Cretaceous mymarid genera. Zookeys, 130, 461-472.
Poinar, G.O.Jr. 2009b. Melittosphex (Hymenoptera: Melittosphecidae), a primitive bee and not a wasp. Palaeontology, 52(2), 483.
Guo, L., Shih, C., Li, L. & Ren, D. 2016. New pelecinid wasps (Hymenoptera: Pelecinidae) from Upper
Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research, 67, 84-90.
Engel, M.S. 2005. A dryinine wasp in Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Dryinidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 74(4), 485-494.
Engel, M.S. 2006. Two ensign wasps in Cretaceous amber from New Jersey and Myanmar. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne, 75(3), 443-454.
Poinar, G.O.Jr. & Shaw, S.R. 2016. Endoparasitism of a Cretaceous adult weevil by a euphorine wasp
Poinar, G.O.Jr. 2016. A mid-Cretaceous Eccrinales infesting a primitive wasp in Myanmar amber. Fungal Biology, 120(12), 1537-1539.
