Fossil Parasitic Wasps from the Paleogene of France

[Oxytropidoceras]

Before These Parasitic Wasps Finished Devouring 

Live Flies, They Became Fossils. In fly pupae that 

turned to stone, scientists found evidence that 

wasps have been infesting other insects for tens 

of millions of years. By Nicholas St. Fleur, Aug. 28, 2018

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/28/science/wasps-parasites-fossils.html

 

Digitally Resurrected: Parasitic Wasp Xenomorphia

resurrecta Deposits An Egg in a Fly Pupa (IMAGE)

https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/179216.php

 

The paper is:

 

Thomas van de Kamp, Achim H. Schwermann, Tomy 

dos Santos Rolo, Philipp D. Lösel, Thomas Engler, 

Walter Etter, Tomáš Faragó, Jörg Göttlicher, Vincent 

Heuveline, Andreas Kopmann, Bastian Mähler, 

Thomas Mörs, Janes Odar, Jes Rust, Nicholas Tan 

Jerome, Matthias Vogelgesang, Tilo Baumbach and

 Lars Krogmann, 2018, Parasitoid biology preserved 

in mineralized fossils. Nature Communications

 9, Article number: 3325. Article | Open | Published: 

28 August 2018

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05654-y

 

Yours,

Paul H.