The Genus Euparagia Cresson (Hymenoptera: Vespidae; Euparagiinae)

Carpenter, James M.; Kimsey, Lynn S.

doi:10.1206/626.1

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“…Vespidae is organized into six extant subfamilies. Three subfamilies comprise solitary wasps: Euparagiinae, once a widespread and diverse group of which only one genus remains today with ten nearctic species (Carpenter & Kimsey, ); Masarinae, which feed on flower pollen (370 spp.) and the highly species‐rich subfamily Eumeninae, or potter wasps (3746 spp.).…”

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Early lineages of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) in Cretaceous amber

Perrard

Grimaldi

Carpenter

2017

Systematic Entomology

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Three wasp (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) fossils in Cretaceous amber (Late Albian) of northern Myanmar are described. Two are new species of the Mesozoic genus Curiosivespa (Rasnitsyn): C. zigrasi sp.n. and C. striata sp.n. The third species, Protovespa haxairei gen.n. et sp.n., has a combination of features unique among Mesozoic Priorvespinae and the extant subfamilies. These well preserved fossils provide new morphological data for a cladistic analysis of the basal lineages of Vespidae. Results suggest that Euparagiinae is the sister group of all other Vespidae. The new genus Protovespa appears more closely related to extant Masarinae, Eumeninae and social wasps than to Priorvespinae. We assign it to a new subfamily: Protovespinae. Finally, fossil information combined with a phylogenetic tree shows that the main groups of Vespidae probably evolved during the Early Cretaceous.This published work has been registered in ZooBank, http://zoobank.org/urn:lsid: zoobank.org:pub:1E7E4796-6E70-4D81-BB34-0FEEA765DC25.

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Early lineages of Vespidae (Hymenoptera) in Cretaceous amber

Perrard

Grimaldi

Carpenter

2017

Systematic Entomology

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“…Three subfamilies comprise solitary wasps: Euparagiinae, once and diverse group of which only one genus remainstoday with ten nearctic species; Masarinae, which feed on flower pollen and the highly species-rich subfamily Eumeninae, or potter wasps. The three other subfamilies are Stenogastrinae, primitively social wasps from Southeast Asia; Polistinae, or paperwasps, the most diverse group of social wasps and Vespinae, including yellow jackets and hornets [2,3].…”

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confidence: 99%