The geological record and phylogeny of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): A revision of fossil species and their phylogenetic placement

Rodríguez, Juanita; Waichert, Cecília; Dohlen, Carol D. von; Pitts, James P.

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0185379

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“…Until now, the only venoms to be studied have come from just four genera: Anoplius, Batozonellus, Cyphononyx, and Pepsis [92,107,108,123,138,141,143,144]. These do cover the two major subfamilies of Pompilidae-Pompilinae (Anoplius and Batozonellus) and Pepsinae (Cyphononyx and Pepsis)-but there are many smaller subfamilies and broad swathes of the phylogeny even within the main two that have not been studied at all (see Figure 1) [87,88,153].…”

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A Short Review of the Venoms and Toxins of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Dashevsky

Rodríguez

2021

Toxins

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Parasitoid wasps represent the plurality of venomous animals, but have received extremely little research in proportion to this taxonomic diversity. The lion’s share of investigation into insect venoms has focused on eusocial hymenopterans, but even this small sampling shows great promise for the development of new active substances. The family Pompilidae is known as the spider wasps because of their reproductive habits which include hunting for spiders, delivering a paralyzing sting, and entombing them in burrows with one of the wasp’s eggs to serve as food for the developing larva. The largest members of this family, especially the tarantula hawks of the genus Pepsis, have attained notoriety for their large size, dramatic coloration, long-term paralysis of their prey, and incredibly painful defensive stings. In this paper we review the existing research regarding the composition and function of pompilid venoms, discuss parallels from other venom literatures, identify possible avenues for the adaptation of pompilid toxins towards human purposes, and future directions of inquiry for the field.

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A Short Review of the Venoms and Toxins of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Dashevsky

Rodríguez

2021

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“…The primary aim of the present paper is to describe a group of mid-Cretaceous aculeate wasps from the Burmese amber which does not fit any described family even though it displays some features in common with the living family Pompilidae that is in turn of questionable taxonomic position and has an unusually short fossil record (Rodriguez et al, 2016(Rodriguez et al, , 2017.…”

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Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

Zhang

Rasnitsyn

Zhang

2018

Cretaceous Research

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A group of aculeate wasps from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described as Burmusculus Zhang and Rasnitsyn, gen. nov. in Burmusculidae Zhang and Rasnitsyn, fam. nov. The type genus Burmusculus contains three species: Burmusculus nuwae Zhang and Rasnitsyn sp. nov., Burmusculus fuxii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov., and Burmusculus shennongii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov. It does not fit any described families and therefore is referable to a new family.The family displays some features in common with the living family Pompilidae but can be easily distinguished from Pompilidae in having the mesopleuron lacking an oblique suture. Hence it is assigned to the superfamily Pompiloidea (monotypical as yet in our understanding) as the second member.

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“…The primary aim of the present paper is to describe a group of mid-Cretaceous aculeate wasps 51 from the Burmese amber which does not fit any described family even though it displays some 52 features in common with the living family Pompilidae that is in turn of questionable taxonomic 53 position and has an unusually short fossil record (Rodriguez et al, 2016(Rodriguez et al, , 2017. 54…”

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Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

Rasnit︠s︡yn¹

2018

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A group of aculeate wasps from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber is described as Burmusculus Zhang and Rasnitsyn, gen. nov. in Burmusculidae Zhang and Rasnitsyn, fam. nov. The type genus Burmusculus contains three species: Burmusculus nuwae Zhang and Rasnitsyn sp. nov., Burmusculus fuxii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov., and Burmusculus shennongii Zhang and Rasnitsyn, sp. nov. It does not fit any described families and therefore is referable to a new family. The family displays some features in common with the living family Pompilidae but can be easily distinguished from Pompilidae in having the mesopleuron lacking an oblique suture. Hence it is assigned to the superfamily Pompiloidea (monotypical as yet in our understanding) as the second member.

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The geological record and phylogeny of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): A revision of fossil species and their phylogenetic placement

Cited by 11 publications

References 33 publications

A Short Review of the Venoms and Toxins of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

A Short Review of the Venoms and Toxins of Spider Wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)

Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

Burmusculidae, a new and basal family of pompiloid wasps from the Cretaceous of Eurasia (Hymenoptera: Pompiloidea)

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