Dominican Amber - Fossil Ecosystems of North America: A Guide to the Sites and their Extraordinary Biotas - page 234

in Dominican amber, as are the members
of another large group of plant-eating
beetles: the weevils (Curculionoidea).
Hymenoptera (ants, bees, and wasps)
can be subdivided into two suborders:
Symphyta (sawflies and horntails) and
Apocrita (ants, bees, and wasps). A number
of sawflies have been recorded from

Dominican amber (Smith and Poinar,
1992). There are many different groups of
Apocrita: parasitic, solitary, colonial, social,
winged, and wingless. A great many
Apocrita are parasitoids: they lay their eggs
in a live host which their larvae parasitize
until they are ready to pupate when the
host usually dies. A great many parasitoids

264

264 Wood-boring beetle of
the family Anobiidae PC.
Length about 4 mm 0.2 in.

265

265 A beetle of the family
Cucujidae: predators on wood-
boring insects PC. Length
about 3.5 mm 0.1 in.