Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps (Pompilidae): fossil evidence from amber

Rodríguez, Juanita; Waichert, Cecília; Dohlen, Carol D. von; Poinar, George O.; Pitts, James P.

doi:10.4202/app.00073.2014

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“…Crown‐group Pompilidae originated in the middle Palaeogene ( c . 43 Mya) in the Nearctic region, and appear to have experienced various dispersal events and episodes of rapid diversification (J. Rodriguez, C. Waichert, C. D. von Dohlen & J. P. Pitts, unpubl. data).…”

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“…In Pompilinae, both Agenioideus and Arachnospila Kincaid are paraphyletic. Generic validation and phylogenetic relationships of Pompilinae will be discussed in more detail elsewhere (J. Rodriguez, C. D. von Dohlen & J. P. Pitts, unpubl. data).…”

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“…Four calibration points were used for the analysis. Three were obtained from reliable fossil data of Pompilidae species (Rodriguez et al ., in press), and one from the age of the crown group of Pompilidae as inferred by a dating analysis of all stinging wasps (Wilson et al ., ). The common ancestor of Anoplius Dufour + Dicranoplius Haupt was given a lognormal prior of 25 Mya (mean in real space; log SD = 0.5) based on the fossil of Anoplius sp.…”

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“…The common ancestor of Anoplius Dufour + Dicranoplius Haupt was given a lognormal prior of 25 Mya (mean in real space; log SD = 0.5) based on the fossil of Anoplius sp. nov. (Rodriguez et al ., in press) from Dominican amber, which belongs to the stem group of Anoplius . The common ancestor of Cryptocheilus Panzer + ( Entypus Dahlbom + ( Diplonyx Saussure + ( Hemipepsis + ( Leptodialepis Haupt + Dinosalius Banks)))), as well as the common ancestor of Agenioideus Ashmead + ( Homonotus Dahlbom + Ferreola Lepeletier), were given a lognormal prior with mean in real space of 33 Mya (log SD = 0.5) based on the fossils of Cryptocheilus hypogaeus Cockerell and Agenioideus saxigenus (Cockerell), both found in the Colorado Florissant beds (Cockerell, , ).…”

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“…Pompilidae are unquestionably a monophyletic family (Shimizu, ; Fernández, ; Pitts et al ., ; Pilgrim, von Dohlen & Pitts, ; Debevec, Cardinal & Danforth, ), distinguished morphologically by the presence of a straight transverse carina on the mesopleuron, dividing it into upper and lower regions (Townes, ), and behaviourally by provisioning nest cells exclusively with a single spider. Divergence‐time estimation (Wilson et al ., ) and the fossil record (Rodriguez et al ., in press) suggest that stem‐group Pompilidae appeared in the Upper Cretaceous and crown‐group taxa diversified in the early Eocene.…”

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Molecular phylogeny and systematics of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): redefining subfamily boundaries and the origin of the family

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Spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) constitute a monophyletic family supported by numerous morphological and behavioural traits. The subfamilial and tribal classifications, however, have a history of conflicting and confusing designations and nomenclature. Here, we reconstruct a molecular phylogeny of Pompilidae from Bayesian and maximum-likelihood analyses of four nuclear molecular markers (elongation factor-1 α F2 copy, longwavelength rhodopsin, RNA polymerase II, and 28S ribosomal RNA). A Bayesian divergence-time estimation analysis was performed using four calibration points and an ancestral-area reconstruction was performed with a Bayesian binary Markov chain Monte Carlo method. New relationships are recovered, and new subfamilial delimitations are proposed and discussed based on the phylogeny. The origin of Pompilidae was c. 43.3 Mya, probably in the Nearctic region. Most of the extant subfamilies originated from the late Eocene to the Oligocene, and their current distributions are the product of various dispersal events that occurred over the course of ∼40 Mya. This is the first phylogenetic reconstruction of Pompilidae from molecular characters, with broad geographical and taxonomic sampling. The following subfamilies and relationships are recognized: Ctenocerinae + ((Ceropalinae + Notocyphinae) + (Pompilinae + Pepsinae)). We revalidate Notocyphinae, which contains only Notocyphus, and define a new tribe in Pompilinae: Sericopompilini. Priochilini is reinstated. Sericopompilini contains Sericopompilus as the sole representative; Priochilini contains Priochilus and Balboana. Epipompilus and Chirodamus are now classified as Pepsinae.

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Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

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A group of aculeate wasps from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described as Burmusculus Zhang and Rasnitsyn, gen. nov. in Burmusculidae Zhang and Rasnitsyn, fam. nov. The type genus Burmusculus contains three species: Burmusculus nuwae Zhang and Rasnitsyn sp. nov., Burmusculus fuxii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov., and Burmusculus shennongii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov. It does not fit any described families and therefore is referable to a new family.The family displays some features in common with the living family Pompilidae but can be easily distinguished from Pompilidae in having the mesopleuron lacking an oblique suture. Hence it is assigned to the superfamily Pompiloidea (monotypical as yet in our understanding) as the second member.

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The oldest species of Pompilidae to date, a new fossil spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

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Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps (Pompilidae): fossil evidence from amber

Abstract: Spider wasps had long been proposed to originate in the mid-Cretaceous based on the Burmese amber fossil Bryopompilus interfector Engel and Grimaldi, 2006

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Molecular phylogeny and systematics of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): redefining subfamily boundaries and the origin of the family

Molecular phylogeny and systematics of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): redefining subfamily boundaries and the origin of the family

Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

The oldest species of Pompilidae to date, a new fossil spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

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