Melittosphex burmensis is an aculeate wasp that was formerly considered one of the two oldest-known species of bees. The species was described from an...

from the Cretaceous Period, 100 million years ago, the same age as Melittosphex burmensis, likewise previously considered the oldest known bee species; as...

New Jersey amber. A fossil from the early Cretaceous (~100 mya), Melittosphex burmensis, was initially considered "an extinct lineage of pollen-collecting...

(Germany) by Radchenko & Perkovsky (2021). Original claims that both Melittosphex burmensis and Discoscapa apicula were primitive bees have been rejected by...

Megalopsenella pouilloni Jouault et al. 2020 A bethylid wasp. Melittosphex burmensis Poinar & Danforth 2006 An aculeate wasp Mendampulex monilicularis...