Panguidae is an extinct family of aculeate wasps. It has two unambiguous members, Protopangu known from the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian) amber from the Wessex Formation of southern England[1] and Pangu from the mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian) Burmese amber of Myanmar.[2] The genus Prosphex, originally considered incertae sedis, was suggested to be a member of the family in a later publication. Their relationships with other aculates are uncertain, and they are considered to be the only members of the superfamily Panguoidea.[3][2] A specimen of Prosphex was observed with a substantial amount of angiosperm pollen near and within its mouth, implying that it was pollenivorous, and acted as a pollinator for flowering plants.[4] However, other later publications have placed Prosphex outside of Panguidae.[5]
| Panguidae Temporal range: Early Barremian - earliest Cenomanian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Infraorder: | Aculeata |
| Family: | †Panguidae Li, Rasnitsyn, Shih & Ren, 2019 |
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References
edit- ^ Zhuang, Yuhui; Li, Jiahao; Jarzembowski, Edmund A.; Wang, Bo; Zhang, Qingqing (2024-02-12). "A new genus of Panguoidea in Lower Cretaceous Wealden amber". Historical Biology: 1–4. doi:10.1080/08912963.2024.2309637. ISSN 0891-2963.
- ^ a b Li, Longfeng; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Shih, Chungkun; Li, Daqing; Ren, Dong (May 2020). "Two new rare wasps (Hymenoptera: Apocrita: Panguidae and Burmusculidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of Northern Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 109: 104220. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2019.104220. S2CID 202186158.
- ^ Li, Longfeng; Rasnitsyn, Alexandr P.; Shih, Chungkun; Li, Daqing; Ren, Dong (November 2020). "A new species and diagnostic characters for Panguidae (Hymenoptera, Panguoidea)". Cretaceous Research. 115: 104563. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104563. S2CID 225637441.
- ^ Grimaldi, David A.; Peñalver, Enrique; Barrón, Eduardo; Herhold, Hollister W.; Engel, Michael S. (December 2019). "Direct evidence for eudicot pollen-feeding in a Cretaceous stinging wasp (Angiospermae; Hymenoptera, Aculeata) preserved in Burmese amber". Communications Biology. 2 (1): 408. doi:10.1038/s42003-019-0652-7. ISSN 2399-3642. PMC 6838090. PMID 31728419.
- ^ Barden, Phillip; Engel, Michael S. (2022-09-22). "The vision of David Grimaldi". Palaeoentomology. 5 (5). doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.5.1. ISSN 2624-2834.