Angarosphecidae


Angarosphecidae is an extinct family of Mesozoic and early Cenozoic wasps in the superfamily Apoidea.

Taxonomy

  • Angarosphex
  • *Ar. boothi
  • *Ar. catalunicus
  • *Ar. crowsoni
  • *Ar. curvus
  • *Ar. incertus
  • *Ar. proximus
  • Baissodes Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Hauterivian Yixian Formation, China, Aptian Gurvan-Eren Formation, Mongolia, Aptian Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • *B. grabaui
  • *B. longus
  • *B. magnus
  • *B. robustus
  • Cretobestiola La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian Crato Formation, Brazil, Aptian, Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia, Aptian Zaza Formation, Argun Formation, Russia, Aptian
  • *Cb. communis
  • *Cb. hispanica
  • *Cb. subpetiolata
  • *Cb. tenuipes
  • Cretosphecium
  • *Cs. lobatum - Aptian, Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia
  • *Cs. triste - Aptian, Dzun-Bain Formation, Mongolia
  • Eosphecium
  • *Eo. naumanni - Ypresian, Coldwater Beds, Eocene Okanagan Highlands, Canada
  • Eubaissodes
  • *Eu. completus - Aptian, Laiyang Formation, China
  • Ilerdosphex
  • *I. wenzae - Barremian, La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain
  • Mesorhopalosoma
  • *Me. cearae - Aptian, Crato Formation, Brazil
  • Montsecosphex
  • *Mo. jarzembowskii - Barremian, La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain
  • Oryctobaissodes
  • *O. armatus - Aptian, Zaza Formation, Russia,
  • Paleorhopalosoma
  • *Pa. menatensis - Paleocene, Menat Formation, France
  • Pompilopterus Weald Clay, United Kingdom, Hauterivian/Barremian La Pedrera de Rúbies Formation, Spain, Barremian, Zaza Formation, Russia, Aptian, Sinuiju Formation, North Korea, Aptian
  • *Po. ciliatus
  • *Po. corpus
  • *Po. difficilis
  • *Po. keymerensis
  • *Po. leei
  • *Po. montsecensis
  • *Po. noguerensis
  • *Po. ryonsangensis
  • *Po. sinuijuensis
  • *Po. wimbledoni
  • *Po. worssami
  • Trichobaissodes
  • *T. antennatus - Aptian, Zaza Formation, Russia
  • Vitimosphex
  • *V. incompletus - Aptian, Zaza Formation, Russia
  • *V. vividus - Yixian Formation, China
Undescribed specimens are known from the Cenomanian aged Burmese amber of Myanmar, and several of the Eocene Okanagan Highlands sites. Fossils identified as Eosphecium sp. have been reported from the Driftwood shales, Tranquille Formation, and Klondike Mountain Formation. Additional angarosphecid specimens are reported from the Tranquille and Republic sites plus the Allenby Formation that are not Eosphecium.
Burmasphex Melo and Rosa and Decasphex Zheng et al, originally assigned to this family, were subsequently moved to the separate apoid family Burmasphecidae.