A new short-winged flower beetle with exaggerated head and antennal scape in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Kateretidae)

Zhao, Qian; Huang, Diying; Cai, Chenyang

doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2023.105567

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“…As this group (here treated a separate family Apophisandridae stat. nov.) is quite abundant among beetles included in Burmese amber, many researchers followed Poinar and Brown [26], and some publications appeared in a rather short period [27][28][29][30][31][32]. However, one genus of this group was recently described among Nitidulidae [35].…”

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“…nov., is proposed within this family for the genus Cretoparacucujus Cai, Escalona, Li, Huang, and Engel 2018 [25], initially placed in Boganiidae. Some fossil 'kateretid' genera are currently described [26][27][28][29][30][31][32], and some of them are tentatively considered as pollinators. At the time, some probable evidence of plant counter adaptation for 'cantharophily' in the description of a cockroach nectarivory was published [33].…”

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A New Subgenus of the Genus Phenolia (Coleoptera, Nitidulidae) from Myanmar Cretaceous Amber with Taxonomic, Phylogenetic and Bionomic Notes on the ‘Nitidulid’ Group of Families

Kirejtshuk

Shaw

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2023

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A new subgenus, Palaeoronia subgen. nov., is described from the Cretaceous amber of North Myanmar (Kachin State) and assigned to the genus Phenolia. The type species of the new subgenus, Phenolia (Palaeoronia) haoranae subgen. et sp. nov., is characterized by a rather ‘archaic’ aspect. A discussion of the diagnostic and structure of the Soronia-complex of genera (together with the Phenolia-complex of genera) (Nitidulinae, Nitidulini) is proposed. Reasons for the ‘conservatism’ of this group during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic are discussed. The position of the Apophisandridae stat. nov. (type genus Apophisandra) and the transfers of the following genera into this family: Cretaretes, Electrumeretes, Furcalabratum, Pelretes, Polliniretes, Protokateretes, Protonitidula, and Scaporetes, from the Kateretidae, Nitidulidae or Cerambycidae are grounded. The relations of the family Parandrexidae (with inclusion of the genus Cretoparacucujus, transferred from Boganiidae with a proposal of the subfamily Cretoparacucujinae subfam.nov.), Martynoposis and Parandrexis are considered. The genus Antirhelus gen. nov. (type species Heterhelus businae) is assigned to the new subfamily, Antirhelinae subfam. nov. in the family Kateretidae. The fossil records of the ‘nitidulid’ group of families (Apophisandridae stat. nov., Kateretidae, Nitidulidae, Parandrexidae, Smicripidae and possibly Boganiidae) are reviewed. The relationship of the family Boganiidae, some aspects of pollination and pollinophagy, and also changes in beetle diet in the past are discussed. The lectotype of Parandrixis parvula is designated.

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