Three new species of soldier beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Cantharidae)

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4455 (3) ◽  
pp. 513 ◽  
Author(s):  
FABRIZIO FANTI ◽  
MARY K. PANKOWSKI
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
First Time ◽  
The Relationship

Three new species of soldier beetles (Cantharidae) are described from late Eocene Baltic amber from the Kaliningrad Region of Russia on the coast of the Baltic Sea, i.e., Rhagonycha maryae sp. nov., Sucinorhagonycha samsockorum sp. nov. and Malthodes josephi sp. nov. Sucinorhagonycha samsockorum has a few antennomeres that are slightly dentate, making the new species appear intermediate between genus Sucinorhagonycha Kuśka, 1996, with filiform antennae, and genus Cacomorphocerus Schaufuss, 1892, which has saucer-shaped central antennomeres. This suggests that the relationship between the two genera may be closer than previously believed. Malthodes josephi is noteworthy because it has cuticular vesicles extruding from its abdominal segments that suggest their use for chemical defense. It is the first time that these vesicles have been discovered in Eocene species of soldier beetles. It is also the first time they have been seen in all extinct and extant species of the subfamily Malthininae and its genus Malthodes Kiesenwetter, 1852.

REVISION OF THE NEW WORLD CHRYSOLAMPINAE (HYMENOPTERA: CHALCIDOIDEA)

1986 ◽  
Vol 118 (9) ◽  
pp. 913-940 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Christopher Darling
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
North America ◽  
Late Cretaceous ◽  
New World ◽  
World Species ◽  
European Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Climatic Information

AbstractThe taxonomy and biology of New World species of Chrysolampinae are reviewed with diagnoses given for the subfamily, genera, and species. A key to the species of Chrysolampus and a summary of geographic distribution and information on host and floral associations are presented. Three new species are described from North America (Chrysolampus improcerus, C. luridus and C. elegans); Chrysolampus lycti Crawford is transferred to Perilampus and synonymized with the European species P. micans Dalman. The genus Chrysomalla is recorded in the New World for the first time based on the new species Chrysomalla hesperis. An explanation of the historical biogeography of the genera is proposed that is consistent with Late Cretaceous and Tertiary geological, botanical, and climatic information. It is suggested that the extant species are descendents of elements of a widely distributed arid biota.

scholarly journals A new species of <i>Lacinius</i> in amber (Arachnida: Opiliones)

Fossil Record ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. G. Mitov ◽  
J. A. Dunlop ◽  
D. Penney
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Fossil Record ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Unique Character ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
A New Species

Abstract. A new specimen of Lacinius Thorell, 1876; (Opiliones: Phalangiidae) from Eocene Baltic amber is described. We interpret it as conspecific with a slightly younger record from the German Bitterfeld amber, originally referred to as the extant species L. erinaceus Staręga, 1966. Our new specimen reveals pedipalpal apophyses on both the patella and the tibia, features which we can now confirm in the Bitterfeld fossil too. This unique character combination for the genus justifies a new, extinct species: Lacinius bizleyi sp. nov. The Baltic amber inclusion dates to ca. 44–49 Ma, and is thus the oldest putative example of Lacinius in the fossil record. It is a further example of an arachnid species shared between Baltic and Bitterfeld amber.

scholarly journals Fourth Contribution on Late Eocene Amber Silken Fungus Beetles: A New Baltic Amber Species of Atomaria (Coleoptera, Clavicornia, Cryptophagidae)

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 63-66 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Yu. Lyubarsky ◽  
E. E. Perkovsky
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Middle Eocene ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Biting Midge ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Eocene Amber

Atomaria gedanicola Lyubarsky et Perkovsky, sp. n., a new cryptophagid species from Baltic amber is described. The new species is the first recorded Eocene Atomariinae. The new species is similar to A. fuscipes Gyllenhal. It differs from the latter in having pronotum flat, posterior angles of pronotum obtuse, and antenna short. The record of A. gedanicola syninclused with Ceratopogon biting midge supports the Late Eocene age of the Baltic amber, for the Holarctic affinities of both taxa are incompatible with the paratropical climate characteristic of the Mid-European Middle Eocene.

Review of fossil heterostigmatic mites (Acari: Heterostigmata) from late Eocene Rovno Amber. I. Families Tarsocheylidae, Dolichocybidae and Acarophenacidae

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-61
Author(s):  
Alexander A. Khaustov ◽  
Dmitry D. Vorontsov ◽  
Evgeny E. Perkovsky ◽  
Evert E. Lindquist
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Present Article ◽  
New Genus ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Rovno Amber ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
First Time

The present article represents the first part of a review of fossil heterostigmatic mites collected from late Eocene Rovno amber. Here, mites of the families Tarsocheylidae, Dolichocybidae, and Acarophenacidae are described, with Tarsocheylidae and Dolichocybidae recorded for the first time from amber. A new genus and four new species are described, namely, Hoplocheylus similis sp. nov. (Tarsocheylidae), Dolichocybe elongata sp. nov. (Dolichocybidae), Proadactylidium fossibilis gen. and sp. nov. and Paradactylidium sineunguis sp. nov. (Acarophenacidae). The extant species Acarophenax lacunatus Cross and Krantz, 1964 and A. assanovi Livshitz and Mitrofanov, 1974 are transferred to the new genus Proadactylidium. A revised key to the genera of Acarophenacidae is presented. The homologies of prodorsal setae in Acarophenacidae are reconsidered and reviewed.

A new record and a new species of Aradidae fossils ( Hemiptera: Heteroptera)

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2832 (1) ◽  
pp. 56
Author(s):  
LORENE MARCHAL ◽  
ERIC GUILBERT ◽  
PATRICK BRISAC ◽  
ANDRE NEL
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
New Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Insect Species ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Upper Miocene ◽  
Morphological Stasis ◽  
Sedimentary Deposit ◽  
First Time ◽  
A New Species

Calisius balticus, previously known from the Middle-Late Eocene Baltic amber, is recorded for the first time in the Lowermost Eocene French amber. It is the second case of an insect species present in both these two ambers, representing a morphological stasis of ca. 10 Ma. It is the oldest record of the genus Calisius. Aradus andancensis n. sp. in Upper Miocene sedimentary deposit from France is also described.

The genus Benthofascis (Gastropoda: Conoidea): A revision with descriptions of new species

Zootaxa ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2796 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. K. TUCKER ◽  
M. J. TENORIO ◽  
P. STAHLSCHMIDT
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Western Australia ◽  
Type Species ◽  
Fossil Species ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
Geologic Record ◽  
First Time

The conoidean gastropod genus Benthofascis Iredale, 1936 is examined. This genus of Conorbidae has extant species. Three previously described species from the Recent including the type species B. biconica (Hedley), B. sarcinula (Hedley), and B. lozoueti Sysoev & Bouchet are reviewed. Three new species from the Recent, B. conorbioides sp. nov., B. pseudobiconica sp. nov., and B. angularis sp. nov. are described from Australia. One of these (B. angularis) is the first Benthofascis species described from Western Australia. Two fossil species originally described as Conorbis from the Miocene and Oligocene of Australia (C. atractoides Tate and C. otwayensis Long, respectively) are for the first time assigned to Benthofascis, thus extending the geologic record of the genus to the Oligocene.

The first described darkling beetle of the tribe Metaclisini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Zootaxa ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4999 (3) ◽  
pp. 279-284
Author(s):  
MAXIM V. NABOZHENKO ◽  
RYAN C. MCKELLAR ◽  
ANDRIS BUKEJS
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
Extinct Species ◽  
Darkling Beetle ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
First Time ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

The description of an extinct species of Metaclisa Jacquelin du Val, 1861 (Tenebrionidae) is presented. This genus and the tribe Metaclisini are recorded as fossils for the first time, from Eocene Baltic amber. The new species Metaclisa ottoi sp. nov. belongs to the subgenus Trichometaclisa subgen. nov. and differs from all other Metaclisini in possessing short, fine recumbent setation on the pronotum and elytra; in addition, the prosternal process in Metaclisa ottoi sp. nov. is roundly bent down and weakly projected behind the procoxae, which differs from extant species.

scholarly journals First Records of Scolebythidae And Chrysididae (Hymenoptera, Chrysidoidea) In Rovno Amber

2013 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. E. Perkovsky ◽  
A. P. Rasnitsyn
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
First Record ◽  
Late Eocene ◽  
Rovno Amber ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
New Genera ◽  
New Tribe ◽  
The Baltic

, Recorded from the Late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) are above 300 families of Arthropoda. One hundred, seventy-four new species, 35 new genera and one new tribe have been described there in 45 families, including 42 species, 9 genera and one tribe of Hymenoptera. The first record of Scolebythidae is documented herein along with more detail information about Chrysididae which was only mentioned there before. Chrysidids are diverse and not very rare in the Rovno amber: four known inclusions represent at least three species in two genera. This makes a contrast with the Baltic amber: of 34 specimens known to Brues (1933), 30 represent only two species. Genera Pristapenesia BruesPalaeobethylus Brues and Palaeobethyloides Brues and species Palaeobethylus politus Brues and Pristapenesia primaeva Brues, previously known in Baltic amber only, are recorded in Rovno amber as well.

Description of a new fossil Statira Lepeletier et Audinet-Serville, 1828 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Lagriinae) from Baltic amber of the Sambian Peninsula

Zootaxa ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 4683 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-514 ◽  
Author(s):  
DMITRY TELNOV ◽  
ANDRIS BUKEJS ◽  
OTTÓ MERKL
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
New World ◽  
Baltic Amber ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Kaliningrad Region ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Sea Coast ◽  
Coleoptera Tenebrionidae

Statira baltica sp. nov. is described from Eocene Baltic amber found in the Baltic Sea coast, Yantarny settlement, Kaliningrad Region, Russia. This is the second described fossil member of the genus Statira Lepeletier et Audinet-Serville, 1828 and the tribe Lagriini Latreille, 1825, and the first from outside the New World. 

New species and new geographical record of Ochrotrichia Mosely 1934 Trichoptera: Hydroptilidae) from Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil

Zootaxa ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 4462 (2) ◽  
pp. 229
Author(s):  
BRUNA MARIA SILVA CAVALCANTE ◽  
LEANDRO LOURENÇO DUMAS ◽  
JORGE LUIZ NESSIMIAN
Keyword(s):  
New Species ◽  
Atlantic Forest ◽  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
New World ◽  
Lateral Process ◽  
Extant Species ◽  
Three New Species ◽  
New Geographical Record ◽  
First Time ◽  
Janeiro State

Ochrotrichia, with about 160 extant species in the New World, is the most diverse genus assigned to the Ochrotrichiinae. Despite its diversity, only eight species were previously recorded from Brazil, only one from Rio de Janeiro state. In this paper, we describe three new species from Parque Nacional da Tijuca, an Atlantic Forest area at Rio de Janeiro. Ochrotrichia nematomorpha sp. nov. is placed within the O. xena Group, having a plate-like tergum X, with an unusual phallus which is slender and pointed apically. Ochrotrichia sagitta sp. nov. and O. taunay sp. nov. belong to the O. aldama Group, each having a divided tergum X, but being distinguished from the others in this group by the arrowhead-like apex of left lateral process of tergum X (O. sagitta) and the presence of two dorsal spine-like projections on tergum X (O. taunay). Furthermore, O. caatinga Souza, Santos & Takiya, 2014 is reported for the first time from Rio de Janeiro state. 

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