I am very thrilled to visit the Hymenoptera collection of the @mfnberlin this week 😊🐝 Apart from browsing through the numerous Chrysidoidea specimens, I also went admiring the gigantic dinosaurs of the main exhibition 🦕

The super cool thing I found today in the @mfnberlin collection: a teratological cuckoo wasp (left)! Female Chrysididae of this genus usually show three metasomal segments (right) but this specimen has the second tergite divided on one half and shortened on the other 😮

Our new paper led by Simon Rosse-Guillevic and Corentin Jouault is out in Palaeoentomology 🎉 ✍️ A new scolebythid-like chrysidoid genus and species with striking metasomal structure from the mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber 🔗 researchgate.net/publication/37… OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes Géosciences Rennes

Delighted to see this paper out! We present a new trace fossil assemblage from the Cambrian of Normandy. In collaboration with OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes and Dept. Chemical and Geological Sciences-UniCA. Special thanks to The Paleontological Society and SEPM Society for Sedimentary Geology for the Student Research Grants. doi.org/10.1016/j.pala…

Some pictures of Chrysididae from the collection of the Université de Rennes I took yesterday (Chrysis ignita & Parnopes carnea) @CollecURennes

New paper published with Volker Lohrmann (Übersee-Museum Bremen) and Vincent Perrichot ! 🥳🐝 ✍ The first Cretaceous epyrine wasp (Hymenoptera: Bethylidae): a new genus and species from early Cenomanian Kachin amber 🔗 mdpi.com/2075-4450/15/5… Géosciences Rennes OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes

Some of the Chrysidoidea wasps I took picture of this week in the Hymenoptera collection of the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle 🐝

New paper just published with Paolo Rosa and Vincent Perrichot ! 🐝🥳 ✍️ The first fossil record of the cuckoo wasp genus Primeuchroeus in Eocene Baltic amber, with revision of two fossil Chrysididae ⛓️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Géosciences Rennes OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes

Out ! We analyse the structure of a large -6000-continental assemblage of 140 myo vertebrate droppings (Angeac, France), and feature modern crocs' poop🐊🐟CR2P Institute of Natural Sciences Belgium Belspo Musée d'Angoulême Charente EvoBioUppsala Archaeology, Environmental Changes & Geo-Chemistry Géosciences Rennes sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

IMMENSE DUO DE LA DSM AVEC LE PREMIER MAILLOT JAUNE POUR ROMAIN BARDET ! GRANDIOSE FRANK VAN DEN BROEK AUSSI ! A 33 ans, pour son dernier Tour de France, le Français (33 ans) remporte la 1re étape de cette Grande Boucle à l'issue d'un numéro ! #TDF2024

🐟🦇Quand les poissons mangeaient des chauve-souris. Un article dans Biology Letters avec Romain Vullo du labo Géosciences Rennes #OSUR cc CNRS Terre & Univers CNRS Bretagne et Pays de la Loire Université de Rennes The Royal Society #paléontologie #éocène #fossile #poisson #chauve_souris osur.univ-rennes.fr/actualites/qua…

New paper out in Zootaxa ! 👇👇👇 OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes Géosciences Rennes Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle

That's it, my PhD thesis on the evolution of the Chrysidoidea is submitted !

A new exceptionally preserved sawfly fossil (Hymenoptera: Pergidae) and an evaluation of its utility for divergence time estimation and biogeography #csirocollections #fossils Systematic Entomology resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sy…

New paper out in Palaeoworld with Vincent Perrichot (and wonderful illustration from Laura Bruneau) ! ✍️The first fossil species of Trichopria Ashmead, 1893 (Hymenoptera: Diapriidae) from the Miocene Zhangpu biota ⛓️sciencedirect.com/science/articl… Géosciences Rennes OSUR-Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers Rennes

I made a comment on this unique discovery for New Scientist ! ⬇️