Melittosphex burmensis
Extinct species of bee / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 inclusion in Burmese amber in the year 2006 by George Poinar Jr., a zoologist at Oregon State University. The fossil was found in a mine in the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar and is believed to date from the Cretaceous Period, 100 million years ago.[1]
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Melittosphex burmensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Hymenoptera |
Infraorder: | Aculeata |
Family: | †Melittosphecidae Poinar & Danforth, 2006 |
Genus: | †Melittosphex Poinar & Danforth, 2006 |
Species: | †M. burmensis |
Binomial name | |
†Melittosphex burmensis Poinar & Danforth, 2006 | |
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