Wasp mimicry among Palaeocene reduviid bug from Svalbard

• Published in: Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
• Main Authors: Wappler, Torsten, Garrouste, Romain, Engel, Michael S., Nel, André
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Polska Akademia Nauk, Instytut Paleobiologii 2014
• Subjects: Svalbard
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1808/14424; https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0202

This is the publisher's version, also available electronically from http://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app20110202.html The enigmatic Svalbard Palaeocene fossil taxon Hymenopterites deperditus is revised, and is neither a wasp nor a plant seed, but turns out to be a bug hemelytra corresponding to the oldest described reduviid bug. It can be attributable to the “emesine−saicine clade”. The presence in the Svalbard Palaeocene of this insectivorous bug, showing possible mimicry of a wasp model, confirms the presence of diverse entomofauna and of rather warm palaeoclimatic conditions.