The recently discovered Sirenobethylus charybdis has features not seen in any known insect living today, researchers say.

Modern-day parasitoids in the same superfamily—Chrysidoidea—include cuckoo wasps (which, as their name suggests, lay their ...

charybdis warrant the establishment of a new insect family, Sirenobethylidae, due to hind wing vein patterns that differ greatly from today's Chrysidoidea superfamily. The analysis revealed that ...

An extinct lineage of parasitic wasps dating from the mid-Cretaceous period and preserved in amber may have used their Venus flytrap-like abdomen to ...

Bizarre parasitic wasps preserved in amber about 99 million years ago had trap-like abdomens that they may have used to ...

However, the hind wings aren’t its only striking features. S. charybdis appears to have evolved a unique, three-flapped ...

Modern-day parasitoids of the superfamily Chrysidoidea include cuckoo wasps and bethylid wasps. However, the S. charybdis specimens possess a unique pattern of veins in the hind wing that suggests ...