Angarosphecidae

Angarosphecidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic and early Cenozoic wasps in the superfamily Apoidea.

Angarosphecidae
Temporal range:
Scientific classification e
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Apocrita
Superfamily: Apoidea
Family: Angarosphecidae
Rasnitsyn 1975
Genera

See text

Genera

  • Angarosphex Rasnitsyn 1975 Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Hauterivian/Barremian La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian Laiyang Formation, Yixian Formation, China, Aptian Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian Zaza Formation, Turga Formation, Russia, Aptian Sinuiju Formation, North Korea, Aptian, Cenomanian Burmese amber, Myanmar[1]
  • Baissodes Rasnitsyn 1975 Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Hauterivian Yixian Formaiton, China, Aptian Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Cretobestiola Pulawski and Rasnitsyn 2000 La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian, Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian Zaza Formation, Argun Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Cretosphecium Pulawski and Rasnitsyn 2000 Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian
  • Eosphecium Pulawski and Rasnitsyn 2000 Ootsa Lake Group, Coldwater Beds, Canada, Ypresian
  • Eubaissodes Zhang 1992 Laiyang Formation, China, Aptian
  • Ilerdosphex Rasnitsyn 2000 La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
  • Mesorhopalosoma Darling 1990 Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian
  • Montsecosphex Rasnitsyn and Martínez-Delclòs 2000 La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian
  • Oryctobaissodes Rasnitsyn 1975 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • Paleorhopalosoma Nel et al. 2010 Menat Formation, France, Paleocene
  • Pompilopterus Rasnitsyn 1975 Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Hauterivian/Barremian La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian, Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian, Sinuiju Formation, North Korea, Aptian
  • Vitimosphex Rasnitsyn 1975 Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian

Undescribed specimens are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar.[2] Burmasphex Melo and Rosa (2018) and Decasphex Zheng et al (2020), originally assigned to this family, were subsequently moved to the separate apoid family Burmasphecidae.[1]

References

  1. Rosa, B. B.; Melo, G. A. R. (2023). "A new fossil family of aculeate wasp sheds light on early evolution of Apoidea (Hymenoptera)". Systematic Entomology. doi:10.1111/syen.12584.
  2. Zhang, Qi; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Haichun (December 2018). "Hymenoptera (wasps, bees and ants) in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A review of the fauna". Proceedings of the Geologists' Association. 129 (6): 736–747. doi:10.1016/j.pgeola.2018.06.004. S2CID 134358795.
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