Species
† Eorhopalosoma gorgyra Engel, 2008
Note: Holotype repository: AMNH, Inventory number Bu-222
Eorhopalosoma gorgyra Engel, 2008:171, ♂. Holotype ♂, Cretaceous (Albian) amber; Myanmar, Kachin, Tanai Village (on Ledo Road, 105 km NW Myitkyna) (Amber Fossil Collection, Division of Invertebrate Zoölogy [sic!], American Museum of Natural History, New York). - Nel et al., 2010 Nel, A., D. Azar & S. Hervet 2010. A new rhopalosomatid wasp in the Paleocene of France (Hymenoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 (1-2):211-215. (attribution of Eorhopalosoma to Rhopalosomatidae); Lohrmann & Engel, 2017 Lohrmann, V. & M.S. Engel 2017. The wasp larva’s last supper: 100 million years of evolutionary stasis in the larval development of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae). Fossil Record 20:239-244. (The association of the described fossil larva to E. gorgyra cannot be defended); Ross, 2018 Ross 2018. . :. (listed in checklist of Burmese (Myanmar) amber taxa); Lohrmann et al., 2019 Lohrmann, V., M. Ohl, P. Michalik, J.P. Pitts, L. Jeanneau & V. Perrichot 2019. Notes on rhopalosomatid wasps of Dominican and Mexican amber (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae) with a description of the first fossil species of Rhopalosoma Cresson, 1865. Fossil Record 22:31-44. (listed in summary of known fossil Rhopalosomatidae, discussion); Boudinot & Dungey, 2020 Boudinot, B.E. & D.R. Dungey 2020. Eorhopalosoma lohrmanni, a new species of Rhopalosomatidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar (Hymenoptera, Aculeata: Vespoidea). Cretaceous Research 108:1-6. (Differentiation between E. grogyra and E. lohrmanni); Lohrmann et al., 2020 Lohrmann, V., Q. Zhang, P. Michalik, J. Blaschke, P. Müller, L. Jeanneau, & V. Perrichot 2020. †Cretolixon – a remarkable new genus of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Rhopalosomatidae) from chemically tested, mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber supports the monophyly of Rhopalosomatinae. Fossil Record 23:215-236. (listed in checklist of the world genera and fossil species and occurrences of Rhopalosomatidae).
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Literature
- Boudinot, B.E. & D.R. Dungey 2020. Eorhopalosoma lohrmanni, a new species of Rhopalosomatidae from mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar (Hymenoptera, Aculeata: Vespoidea). Cretaceous Research 108:1-6.
- Engel, M.S. 2008. The wasp family Rhopalosomatidae in Mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea). Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society 81 (3):168-174.
- Lohrmann, V. & M.S. Engel 2017. The wasp larva’s last supper: 100 million years of evolutionary stasis in the larval development of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae). Fossil Record 20:239-244.
- Lohrmann, V., M. Ohl, P. Michalik, J.P. Pitts, L. Jeanneau & V. Perrichot 2019. Notes on rhopalosomatid wasps of Dominican and Mexican amber (Hymenoptera: Rhopalosomatidae) with a description of the first fossil species of Rhopalosoma Cresson, 1865. Fossil Record 22:31-44.
- Lohrmann, V., Q. Zhang, P. Michalik, J. Blaschke, P. Müller, L. Jeanneau, & V. Perrichot 2020. †Cretolixon – a remarkable new genus of rhopalosomatid wasps (Hymenoptera: Vespoidea: Rhopalosomatidae) from chemically tested, mid-Cretaceous Burmese (Kachin) amber supports the monophyly of Rhopalosomatinae. Fossil Record 23:215-236.
- Nel, A., D. Azar & S. Hervet 2010. A new rhopalosomatid wasp in the Paleocene of France (Hymenoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46 (1-2):211-215.
- Ross 2018. . :.