Palaeovespa
Palaeovespa is an extinct genus of wasp in the Vespidae subfamily Vespinae. The genus currently contains eight species: five from the Priabonian stage Florissant Formation in Colorado, United States, two from the middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits of Europe, and one species from the late Paleocene of France.
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11 sectionsContents
- History and classification
- Description
- ''P. florissantia''
- ''P. scudderi''
- ''P. gillettei''
- ''P. baltica''
- ''P. wilsoni''
- ''P. relecta''
- ''P. socialis''
- ''P. menatensis''
- References
Palaeovespa is an extinct genus of wasp in the Vespidae subfamily Vespinae. The genus currently contains eight species: five from the Priabonian stage Florissant Formation in Colorado, United States, two from the middle Eocene Baltic amber deposits of Europe, and one species from the late Paleocene of France.
==History and classification== The genus was first described by Dr. Theodore Cockerell in a 1906 paper published in the Bulletin of the Museum of Comparative Zoology. The genus name is a combination of the Greek '', meaning "old" and vespa from the genus Vespa, the type genus of the family Vespidae where Palaeovespa is placed.