Summetic Sermebdis’s grain is preserved in amber
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Extra gone wasp The preserved by Amber has used his abdomen to take other insects like Venus Flytrap before placing the eggs.
“It’s like I’ve seen before. It’s another wasp or other insect today,” he says Lars Vilhelmsen In the Museum of Denmark Natural History.
Vilhelmsen and his colleagues have been named WASP Sirenobethylus Charybdis After Charybdis, a marine monster at Homer’s epic poem Odyssey. Insects lived almost 99 million years ago during the Cretaceous period.
The researchers scanned the micro-ct, used an imaginary X-ray technique to study 16 female wasps Amber is located in the Kachin region of Myanmar.
The wasp had three slopes in the abdomen, formed a breathing structure. It was saved in different charges, sometimes open and sometimes closed, suggesting that the device was movable and friendly when the insect survived.
“It’s been very exciting, but there was also a challenge, how can you explain how this animal has worked when you don’t like today?” says Vilhelmsen.
He and his colleagues took examples of living and missing wasps and examined their characteristics. This revealed that the closest analogic analogical of the Ambir was revealed that the parasitoids of today’s chrysidoid species were. These include Cuckoo WonpsThe larvae organized as parasites, in the end, die while consuming them.
The structure consisting of three slopes in Wasp’s abdomen
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Behavior key San Charybdis may be the lower flap of the abdomen like the trap Venus Flytrap The plants, says Vilhelmsen. “Fans similar hair, probably sensory hair, probably stretching from that surface. That was going on the surface and the host would soon be accelerated and maybe the wasp would launch.
Suggests that San Charybdis You should wait for potential walnuts like insect wings or skipping nymphs to stop his trap and then stopped the host and hold the eggs.
“The discovery is really unique,” he says Manuel Brazidec Rennes university in France. “What I find extraordinary is the abdomen Sirenobethylus Charybdis All parasitoids of insects is a new solution to a problem: how will you get your host while you put your eggs or? “
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