https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1841-7405
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ABSTRACT
Twenty-three fossil species within 14 genera have already been assigned to Pompilidae, five of these genera are extinct. The oldest described fossil species of spider wasp denotes a late Eocene origin of the group, although the family has been already reported from the early Eocene. Herein, we describe a new species of spider wasp from the Fur Formation, Denmark, the first species described from the Ypresian age. Cryptocheilus leleji sp. nov. is now the oldest recognised species of spider wasp to date.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to Wesley Colombo for helping illustrating the fossil and Dr. Jes Rust for sharing the wing reconstruction illustration with us and allowing its publication. We thank Dr. Arkady Lelej and an anonymous reviewer who comments helped clarify this manuscript. The specimen was collected by Vagner Nielsen (Hyllinge, Denmark). CW thanks CNPq (#435045/2018-0) and FAPES (#85320846) for financial support.
Disclosure statement
No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.
