Melittosphex burmensis is an aculeate wasp that was formerly considered one of the two oldest-known species of bees. The species was described from an...

New Jersey amber. A fossil from the early Cretaceous (~100 mya), Melittosphex burmensis, was initially considered "an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting...

from the Cretaceous Period, 100 million years ago, the same age as Melittosphex burmensis, likewise previously considered the oldest known bee species; as...

braconid wasp. Megarolium paradoxum Rosa & Melo 2021 A bembicine wasp. Melittosphex burmensis Poinar & Danforth 2006 An aculeate wasp Mendampulex monilicularis...

(Germany) by Radchenko & Perkovsky (2021). Original claims that both Melittosphex burmensis and Discoscapa apicula were primitive bees have been rejected by...