José María Gómez Durán

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Two cretaceous alate hymenopterans: wasps or ants?

I have a rounded piece of Burmese amber (15 mm diameter, 5 mm thick) with 2 alate hymenopterans possibly of the same species (Figs. 1, 2, 3). The tips of their abdomens are very close, and I...

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A white mass inside the head of a cretaceous ant. What can it be?

I have a small piece of Burmese amber with a worker of the stem ant Gerontoformica sp. When focusing the head using incident light, it can be seen a white bilateral structure with several lateral...

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