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Bremen (dpai) - The Bremen insect researcher and wasp specialist Volker Lohrmann has discovered a previously unknown genus of wasps in a 100 million year old amber from Myanmar.
She belongs to a family of tropical to subtropical wasps whose larvae feed on crickets, announced the Übersee-Museum Bremen, where Lohrmann is the curator of the insect collection.
The researcher described the wasp species in an international cooperation project with partners from Germany, China, France and the USA.
Often extinct species could only be described on the basis of a single find.
According to the museum, the international research team led by Lohrmann was able to identify four individuals, two males and two females, of the new species with the name Cretolixon alatum.
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Press release Übersee-Museum Bremen