The ?first fossil tumbling flower beetle' larva is a symphytan (Hymenoptera)

A correction is provided regarding the identity of a fossil larva recently reported to represent the fi rst Cretaceous record of its kind for the tenebrionoid family Mordellidae (Coleoptera, tumbling flower beetles). A review of the description of the specimen, however, reveals it to be a larval symphytan (order Hymenoptera), and likely of the family Pamphiliidae. The evidence for the revised identifi cation is summarized.

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This article provides a correction regarding the misidentification of a fossil larva as a tumbling flower beetle, when it is actually a hymenopteran larva of the family Pamphiliidae. Evidence for the revised identification is summarized.