A cretaceous fly trap? remarkable abdominal modification in a fossil wasp
†Sirenobethylus probably was a koinobiont parasitoid wasp; the abdominal grasping apparatus may have been used to temporarily immobilize the host during oviposition. The new fossils suggest that Chrysidoidea displayed a wider range of parasitoid strategies in the mid-Cretaceous than they do today.
Authors
- Taiping Gao (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8118-8708)
- De Zhuo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9559-5542)
- Lars Vilhelmsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5593-5722)
- Dong Ren (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8660-0901)
- Qiong Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0003-8526-3941)
- Xiaoqin Li (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0006-6867-0950)
Institutions
- University of Copenhagen (DK)
- Natural History Museum Aarhus (DK)
- Capital Normal University (CN)
Publication Details
- Journal
- BMC Biology
- Published
- 2025-03-27
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1186/s12915-025-02190-2
- Citations
- 1
- Primary Topic
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 3.03
Funders
- National Natural Science Foundation of China