A 99-million-year-old wasp species used a Venus flytrap-like abdomen to capture prey and may represent a new insect family, ...

(CN) — Scientists have unearthed a 99-million-year-old wasp preserved in amber that they say represents not just a new species but an entirely new family of insects from the mid-Cretaceous period.

A previously unknown species of wasp with an abdomen reminiscent of a Venus flytrap has been discovered in 99-million-year-old Kachin amber, and entomologists have never seen anything like it.

All potter wasp species belong to the subfamily Eumeninae and make up a majority — about 3794 species worldwide and 189 ...