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All specimens on this page are from the Dominican Republic and about 24 million years old

Sale Price
Description of the Specimen
$228
#1 An Ichneumiondae wasp (Hymenoptera: Ichneumonidae)! These are very rare in Dominican (or Baltic for that matter) amber. This is in a small, roundish piece of amber, and very visible.
Scanned Image!
$187
#2 This is a large piece of clear Dominican amber. It weighs 37.2 grams and is about 2 inches x 1.5 x 1 inch. There are 5 wood gnats in the piece, Diptera, Anisopodidae. In addition to that there are 2 leaflets from some unknown plant that lost its parts 24 million year ago. Also there is a small beetle. This is a nice piece for anyone's collection.
Scanned Image!
$66
#3 I think this is a caddis fly, Diptera, Trichoptera, it could be a moth, since it was difficult to see the mouth area. This is a very nice caddis fly though. Also included in this piece is a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae and very an unusual mite (good sized).
Scanned Image!
$89
SOLD
#4 Big piece of Dominican amber with a lot of 24 million year old air bubbles. If you like true bugs, Hemiptera, this is a good one. This has a thread-legged bug, Emesinae, which is often mistaken for a walking stick. This animal still has it's coloration, wow.
Scanned Image!
$87
SOLD
#5 This is a very clear yellow piece of amber that has a shape of an elongated rectangle. It contains a single, reasonable sized moth, Lepidoptera.
Scanned Image!
$39
SOLD
#6 Very small piece of amber with many air bubbles. This contains a very small plant bug, Heteroptera (Miridae) Schizopteridae.
Scanned Image!
$79
#7 This is a great specimen, very large with a nice leafhopper, Order Homoptera, Family Cicadellidae. This is a great price for the size. Scanned Image!
$83
SOLD
#8 What a beauty! This contains a rather large mite, centrally located along with a horseshoe crab beetle, Limulodidae. This is a possible pendant.
Scanned Image
$137
SOLD
#9 Large piece of amber - one of those that you can look at for hours, and still find new animals. There are termites (winged), Isoptera, fungus gnats, Diptera, Myceptophilidae, midges, wasps, Hymenoptera a spider, a barklouse, Psocoptera and more. Great fun to look at under a microscope.
Scanned Image
$363
#10 Here is a pseudoscorpion. Pseudoscorpions are very small - this being no exception. They are very uncommon in amber and command the highest of prices. This one is at the edge of the small piece of very clear amber, and is complete. It does not show hardly at all on the scan. Since is a pseudoscorpion all by itself on this page - the price is VERY good for this specimen! The amber is a round cab shape.
Scanned Image
$148
#11 The scan does not show the leaf in this piece - but it is big and VERY easy to see (you'll have to trust us on this one). It is great. There is a lot more in this piece other than the leaf. Rolled up in one section is a large beetle, a number of gnats, Diptera, a dance fly, Diptera, Enpididae, an immature cricket. There is one heck of a large mite - really large. Also a springtail, Collemba, a wasp, Hymenoptera, even a weevil and a small beetle. You name it, this has it.
Scanned Image
$62
#12 Rather nice piece, very clear, very yellow with some great organic debris scattered throughout. The highlight though is a click beetle, Coleoptera, Elateridae - at a very good price.
Scanned Image
$55
#13 An interesting leaf beetle, Coleoptera, Chrysomedidae on this tubular shape sample. About an inch long by almost half an inch in diameter. There is also a gnat and a fly, both Diptura. On the other side is a single leg from some unlucky animal.
Scanned Image!
$97
#14 Another large leaf beetle, Coleoptera, Chrysomdidae in a perfect piece of amber. Nice and flat on one side (future pendant....) and the beetle is very easy to see. This is a good one. Scanned Image!
$44
SOLD
#15 Interesting piece of amber, this has a millipede, Diplopoda, Polydesmida. Also has some gnats and an antlike stone beetle, Coleoptera, Scydmaenidae. The back side of the amber is irregular in shape.
Scanned Image!
$69
SOLD
#16 A cab shaped piece of clear yellow amber. Off center is a Milichiidae fly, Diptera - in perfect shape. You will enjoy this one.
Scanned Image!
$86
#17 Reddish piece of Dominican amber that contains a nice cricket. The cricket, Orthoptera, has a decomposition gas coming from what looks like the mouth area. You can see the pattern on the hind leg. Also has a gnat.
Scanned Image!
$89
SOLD
#18 This is a big piece of amber. It weighs 28.2 grams and contains a lot of stuff. It does have a nice spider, some gnats, a fungus gnat, Diptera Mycetophilidae, a crane fly, Tipulide and something else. I don't know what it is, it is to small for a polyxenida millipede - but I just do not know!
Scanned Image!
$107
SOLD
#19 Wow, what a cricket, Orthoptera. The amber is impressive and the specimen is also. You will love this piece.
Scanned Image!
$51
#20 A cool true bug, Hemiptera. The amber is smallish with some interesting air bubbles and the bug is just neat. You will like it
Scanned Image!
$99

#21 This is a good sized piece of amber with a very clear interior. The insects are beautiful. The detail will really shock you (at least under a microscope...). There are a couple of good looking black scavenger flies, Diptera, Scatopsidae. Just one heck of a piece.

Scanned Image!

$65
#22 Here you will find a winged termite in all it's glory. There is even another pair of wings next to the unlucky fellow who died 24 million years ago.

Scanned Image!

$27
#23 Not sure about this one, possibly a beetle larvae? Could be almost anything (other than a bird).
Scanned Image!
$37
#24 Medium piece with a caddis fly Trichoptera, or a moth. It is very hard to see some details because this buy is at a bad angle for photography.
Scanned Image!
$167
#25 A little bit of everything. This has what looks like a decayed piece of twig, gnats, a mite, strange parts of a spider, some unknown insect legs, and a bunch of other stuff. This is just plain fun to look at. There is even part of a spider web. Large, 3 inches by 1.5 inches. Scanned Image!
$212
#26 2 pinhole borer beetles, Order Coleoptera, Family Platypodidae. This is a large piece, 3 by 3 inches. There are lots of organic debris and some tubular waste looking items, along with many air bubbles, a wasp and lots of other stuff. Scanned Image!
$57
#27 Interesting piece of amber, this has a reddish tone to it. There are 2 leaves (or bracts) and a lot of insects that are easily overlooked. Among them is a wasp, Hymenoptera, 2 gall gnats, Diptera Cecidomyiidae, fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, some unknowns, and even something that looks like a spider web that is rolled into a large strand.
Scanned Image!
$64
#28 There is a lot here. This includes 2 winged termites, Isoptera, 2 fungus gnats, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, 1 flat bark beetle, Coleoptera, Cucujidae and even more.
Scanned Image!
$59
SOLD
#29 Nice piece here - 4 winged ants, Hymenoptera, Formicidae all meeting their death millions of years ago at the same time. Unusual to get so many in one spot.
Scanned Image!
$73
#30 Click beetle, Elateridae, Coleoptera. When it finds itself upside down, it propels itself into the air with an audible click. Also in this amber is a gnat and a fly, Diptera. Interesting bit of something that looks like tissue (I am sure it is not).
Scanned Image!
$99
#31 A true midge and a small wasp make up this beautiful shape. It is perfect for a pendant. Scanned Image!

 

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