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...
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from the Cretaceous Period, 100 million years ago, the same age as Melittosphex burmensis, likewise previously considered the oldest known bee species; as...
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New Jersey amber. A fossil from the early Cretaceous (~100 mya), Melittosphex burmensis, was initially considered "an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting...
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(Germany) by Radchenko & Perkovsky (2021). Original claims that both Melittosphex burmensis and Discoscapa apicula were primitive bees have been rejected by...
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Megalopsenella pouilloni Jouault et al. 2020 A bethylid wasp. Melittosphex burmensis Poinar & Danforth 2006 An aculeate wasp Mendampulex monilicularis...
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