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Myanmymar aresconoides (Insecta: Hymenoptera)
... that the
Albian
100-million-year-old fossil wasp
Myanmymar
(pictured)
is only half a millimetre long?
... that the
type specimen
of the extinct bulldog ant
Macabeemyrma ovata
is the fossilized remains of an adult
queen
preserved in
shale
?
... that the type specimen of the extinct
tortoise beetle
Denaeaspis
is only 6.04 millimetres (0.238 in) long?
... that the extinct
snakefly
Agulla protomaculata
is the only snakefly described from the
Green River Formation
?
... that the nearest living relatives of
Eosacantha
, a
fossil
tortoise beetle
from
Colorado
, are found in Africa, tropical Asia, and Australia?
... that the extinct
sweat bee
Halictus? savenyei
was the first fossil bee from Canada to be described?