Cimbex is a genus of sawflies in the family Cimbicidae.

Cimbex
Temporal range: EoceneMiocene 37.2–Recent Ma
Cimbex connatus
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Hymenoptera
Suborder: Symphyta
Family: Cimbicidae
Genus: Cimbex
Olivier, 1790
Synonyms
  • Crabro Geoffroy, 1762 (suppressed)
  • Clavellarius Olivier, 1789 (suppressed)
  • Clavellaria Lamarck, 1801 (suppressed)
  • Palaeocimbex Semenov, 1935
  • Deuterocimbex Semenov, 1935
  • Neocimbex Malaise, 1937
  • Allocimbex Zirngiebl, 1953

Selected species

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Fossil record

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Fossil of Cimbex species

This genus is known in the fossil record from the Eocene to the Miocene (from about 37.2 to recent). Fossils of species within this genus have been found in United States, Japan, and China.[2]

References

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  1. ^ "Taxonomisk information". www.dyntaxa.se.
  2. ^ "Fossilworks: Cimbex". fossilworks.org.
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