Description of an ancient social bee trapped in amber using diagnostic radioentomology

Greco, Mark; Welz, Patricia M; Siegrist, Mark; Ferguson, Stephen J; Gallmann, Peter; Roubik, David W; Engel, Michael S (2011). Description of an ancient social bee trapped in amber using diagnostic radioentomology. Insectes sociaux, 58(4), pp. 487-494. Basel: SP Birkhäuser Verlag Basel 10.1007/s00040-011-0168-8

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The application of non-invasive imaging technologies using X-radiation (diagnostic radioentomology, ‘DR’) is demonstrated for the study of amber-entombed social bees. Here, we examine the external and internal morphology of an Early Miocene (Burdigalian) stingless bee (Apinae: Meliponini) from the Dominican Republic using non-destructive X-ray microtomography analysis. The study permits the accurate reconstruction of features otherwise obscured or impossible to visualize without destroying the sample and allows diagnosis of the specimen as a new species, Proplebeia adbita Greco and Engel.

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