Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: Fossil evidence from amber
Spider wasps had long been proposed to originate in the mid-Cretaceous based on the Burmese amber fossil Bryopompilus interfector Engel and Grimaldi, 2006.We performed a morphological examination of this fossil and determined it does not belong to Pompilidae or any other described hymenopteran family.Instead, we place it in the new family Bryopompi