Discoscapa apicula 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

Belongs to Discoscapa according to G. Poinar 2020

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Poinar B-Hy-20, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

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

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