“…Originally, the remains from the Pleistocene peatbog or asphalt deposits were assigned to extinct species by historical authors
(e.g. Łomnicki 1894, Grinell 1908, Orchymont 1927, Pierce 1946, 1948, 1949, 1954, Scudder 1900), supporting the idea of a high evolutionary rate induced by the climate changes during the Pleistocene. Later, more detailed studies of subfossil specimens sometimes based even on the study of their well-preserved genitalia revealed that the majority of Pleistocene subfossil beetles belong to recent species (Elias 2010; for examples of taxonomic revisions see e.g., Darlington 1938, Angus 1973, 1997, Miller and Peck 1979, Doyen and Miller 1980, Miller et al 1981) and resulted in the Pleistocene evolutionary stasis paradigm (Coope 1970, 2004).…”