Highly specialized Cretaceous beetle parasitoids (Ripiphoridae) identified with optimized visualization of microstructures

J Batelka, J Prokop, H Pohl, M Bai… - Systematic …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Extremely miniaturized longipedes insects (body length c. 0.3 mm) embedded in two pieces
of Cretaceous amber from Myanmar are described and interpreted. Using inverted …

A miniaturized beetle larva in Cretaceous Burmese amber: reinterpretation of a fossil “strepsipteran triungulin”

RG Beutel, WW Zhang, H Pohl, T Wappler… - Insect Systematics & …, 2016 - brill.com
A wingless and eyeless tiny fossil embedded in Cretaceous amber from Myanmar is
described and interpreted phylogenetically as beetle larva, very likely belonging to a …

A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea

J Batelka, MS Engel, J Prokop - Cretaceous Research, 2018 - Elsevier
A diversity of new wedge-shaped beetles (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae) are described and
figured from Burmese amber, representing three new genera and five new species in two …

The complete life cycle of a Cretaceous beetle parasitoid

J Batelka, MS Engel, J Prokop - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Life cycles of parasites, particularly those with complex life histories and developmental
pathways, are rarely preserved as fossils in total. 1 The evidence is almost universally …

The first fossil wedge-shaped beetle (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae) from the middle Jurassic of China

Y Hsiao, Y Yu, C Deng, H Pang - European …, 2017 - europeanjournaloftaxonomy.eu
A new species of Ripiphoridae Gemminger & Harold, 1870, Archaeoripiphorus nuwa gen. et
sp. nov., is described and illustrated from a well-preserved impression fossil from the Middle …

[HTML][HTML] A new ripiphorid beetle from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber sheds light on early evolution of the extant subfamily Ripidiinae (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae)

C Cai, Z Yin, D Huang - Comptes Rendus Palevol, 2018 - Elsevier
Fossils belonging to Ripidiinae are rare. Here, we describe and figure a remarkable new
genus and species of Ripidiinae, Protoripidius burmiticus gen. et sp. nov., from the Upper …

New ripiphorid beetles in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Ripiphoridae): first Pelecotominae and possible Mesozoic aggregative behaviour in …

J Batelka, J Prokop, MS Engel - Cretaceous Research, 2016 - Elsevier
New fossil material of ripiphorid beetles (Tenebrionoidea: Ripiphoridae) is described and
figured in lowermost Cenomanian amber from the Hukawng Valley of northern Myanmar …

Early Cretaceous snakefly larvae in amber from Lebanon, Myanmar, and France (Raphidioptera)

V Perrichot, MS Engel - American Museum Novitates, 2007 - BioOne
Snakefly (Raphidioptera) larvae are newly documented from the Early Cretaceous ambers
of Lebanon, Myanmar (Burma), and France. Previously only two Cretaceous larvae had …

Bizzare wingless parasitic wasp from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera, Ceraphronoidea, Aptenoperissidae fam. nov.)

AP Rasnitsyn, G Poinar Jr, AE Brown - Cretaceous Research, 2017 - Elsevier
A strange wingless female parasitic wasp from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described
as Aptenoperissus burmanicus sp. et gen. nov. in the new family Aptenoperissidae …

A 100-million-year-old ensiferan with unusual mouthparts and comments on the evolution of raptorial appendages within Polyneoptera

JT Haug, MK Hörnig, C Kiesmüller, PG Pazinato… - Geodiversitas, 2022 - BioOne
Myanmar amber is known to provide fossils of the group Insecta with surprising
morphologies. Here we present fossils of the new species Gryllobencain patrickmuelleri n …