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


amberica west

Price
Specimen Description
$33
1. The insects are in a plane that makes observation difficult. There are a number of large wasps, an adult planthopper with the wing pattern still evident and a very small wasp.
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$65
SOLD

2. This amber has class. This is a good sized piece (dome shape with flatish bottom) with beautifully clear air bubbles and 2 termites, Order Isoptera. Both termites are worker termites. There is also a nice gnat, Diptera and a small beetle, Coleoptera.

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$58
SOLD

3. A beautiful set of leaves from a moss and a spider near what appears to be part of the spider web. Clear piece with some other organic debris. Some cool air bubbles within other air bubbles.
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$69
SOLD
4. There is a lot here. Possibly a death watch beetle, Coleoptera, Anobiidae along with a beautiful fly, Diptera, Brachycera and a small wasp, Hymenoptera. Possibly also there is a true bug, Hemiptera.
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$49
SOLD
5. A perfect small piece of amber with a winged termite, Isoptera. This is a very nice piece.
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$43
SOLD
6. A lovely piece of Dominican amber that has a beautiful yellow color, very clear and a single, curled over female worker ant, Hymenoptera, Formicidae.
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$94
7. If you want to see a lot of winged termites, Isoptera, this is yours! There are so many with such large wings that it looks like a portion of a leaf. There is also a biting midge and a sterile female ant. This is just a good piece.
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$78
SOLD

8. My gosh is there a lot here. Tons of wings, a fly, wasps, and a large beetle (maybe a pleasing fungus beetle), Coleoptera, Erotylidae. This is a fun piece.
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$47
SSOLD

9. Nice piece of amber with a pedilid beetle, Coleoptera, Pedilidae.
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$67
10. A bunch of flies, Diptera, Brachycera along with a leaf and 2 stamens and filaments. This is a good piece.
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$28
SOLD
11. Clear with a bunch of wings (some of which are still attached to winged termites. There is also an unknown beetle, Coleoptera.
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$59
12. Three Platypodidae beetles (Coleoptera, Platypodidae): flat-footed ambrosia beetles. The amber is flat on one side and dome shaped on the other. It is very yellow and very clear (better than normal.) This is a potential pendant! Scanned Image!
$88
SOLD
13. A large piece that is a bit on the reddish side, contains 2 amber tubes and host of animals. There is a platypodid beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae a spider and an obscured beetle (although I am not sure it is a beetle).
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$68

14. This amber also is flat on the bottom. It has a lot: there is an adult planthopper, Homoptera, super family Fulgoroidea, a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, a small wasp, Hymenoptera and a misc. leg. The amber has many layers which resulted from a series of different resin flows from the tree. Nice piece.
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$49
15. This has no animals that I could see. But it does have plant material in it. There is a very unusual 'seed' looking object with long bumps on it, for the life of me, I do not know what this is. There is also part of a leaf with what looks like a broken egg sac (it is not) on the underneath side. Also in this piece are unidentified stems (?) and again, I just do not know. Scanned Image!
$64
16. At first glance, you don't see a lot, but a second glance brings up a new world. There is a ant head, Hymenoptera, Formicidae, along with that there are some gnats, Diptera, Mycetophilidae, a leaf scale, a beetle larvae, and a true midge, Diptera, Chironomidae and a termite (abdomen is sliced off) and even a tube (unknown tube).
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$35
17. This has a medium sized wasp, Hymenoptera near the middle, along with air bubbles and a small beetle, Coleoptera. Scanned Image!
$38
SOLD
18. A small piece with a nice crane fly, Diptera, Tipulidae. The amber clear and the crane fly is easy to see.
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$38
SOLD
19. Triangular with many ancient air bubbles. There is a lovely immature planthopper in this - very easy to see, Homoptera, Fulgoroidea. There is also a gnat, Diptera Nematocera.
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$66
20. Flat bottomed piece with a bark beetle, Coleoptera, family Scolytidae. Also has part of a spider that was cut off. Good piece for the beetle lover! It also has some organic debris in it.
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$47
SOLD
21. This is a very clear yellow piece of Dominican amber with an unknown wasp, Hymenmoptera. Nice piece to look at!
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$65
SOLD
22. Great clear piece of amber with a fungus beetle, Coleoptera and a large weevil, Curculionoidea, Lechriopinae. There is also a wasp, Hymenoptera off to the side.
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$34
23. Unusual piece, there is a lot of organic debris that clouds the view. But you can see a caddis fly, Tripchoptera, a fungus gnat, Diptera Mycetophilidae and some very strange bubbles.
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$68
SOLD
24. This is a small piece, spherical and flat on one side. There is a very nice Psocid, Psocoptera, family Philotarsidae in it - classic appearance, good teaching piece. - Scanned Image!
$92
25. This has a very large caddisfly Trichoptera also a large ambrosia beetle, Coleoptera, Platypodidae and a fly, Diptera. There are some nice clear air bubbles along with a few of the normal surface glazing that occurs in amber.
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$99
26. Large cab shape with stress planes throughout. Contains an unusual grouping of animals. There is a click beetle, Coleoptera, Elateroidae, a flower (admittedly hard to see) and a spider.
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$37
27. Here is a leaf. There is an isopod on the side along with a host of other things, a fungus gnat, Diptera, Mycetophilidae and a bunch of other difficult things to see. There is even the bottom half of a silverfish. Good price on this piece.
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