| Panguidae Temporal range: Early Barremian - earliest Cenomanian | |
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| Prosphex anthophilos , a possible member of Panguidae | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Hymenoptera |
| Suborder: | Apocrita |
| Infraorder: | Aculeata |
| Superfamily: | Panguoidea |
| Family: | † Panguidae Li, Rasnitsyn, Shih & Ren, 2019 |
| Genera | |
Panguidae is an extinct family of aculeate wasps. It has two unambiguous members, Protopangu known from the Early Cretaceous (early Barremian) amber from the Wessex Formation of southern England [1] and Pangu from the mid-Cretaceous (latest Albian-earliest Cenomanian) Burmese amber of Myanmar. [2] The genus Prosphex, originally considered incertae sedis, was suggested to be a member of the family in a later publication. Their relationships with other aculates are uncertain, and they are considered to be the only members of the superfamily Panguoidea. [3] [2] A specimen of Prosphex was observed with a substantial amount of angiosperm pollen near and within its mouth, implying that it was pollenivorous, and acted as a pollinator for flowering plants. [4] However, other later publications have placed Prosphex outside of Panguidae. [5]