Discoscapa Poinar 2020 (apoid wasp)

Insecta - Hymenoptera - Crabronidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 2020. Discoscapidae fam. nov. (Hymenoptera: Apoidea), a new family of stem lineage bees with associated beetle triungulins in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Palaeodiversity 12:1-9

Parent taxon: Discoscapini according to B. B. Rosa and G. A. R. Melo 2021

See also Poinar 2020

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Discoscapa apicula

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Type: Discoscapa apicula

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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