Eocene aposematic patterns persist in modern European Lycidae beetles despite the absence of co-mimics

European net-winged beetles of the Pyropterus clade, with the description of Gomezzuritus gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Lycidae)

“…), and southern Turkey (1 sp. ; Motyka et al 2023Motyka et al , 2023. The Western Palaearctic fauna is almost completely isolated from East Asia when only three species occur from East Asia to Northeastern Europe, and one species is widespread in almost the entire Palaearctic region (Kazantsev 2012a;Motyka et al 2022).…”

The first neotropical ground beetle (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from the Eocene of Ukraine: finding the first Old World ant nest beetle related to Eohomopterus in the Rovno amber

“…Most known beetles in Rovno amber belong to the suborder Polyphaga Tshernyshev & Perkovsky 2021;Telnov et al 2021Telnov et al , 2022Alekseev & Bukejs 2022, 2023aKazantsev & Perkovsky 2022;Legalov et al 2022aLegalov et al , b, 2023Vitali & Perkovsky 2022;Yamamoto et al 2022;Lyubarsky et al 2023;Motyka et al 2023;Nabozhenko & Perkovsky 2023) and a few belong to the Archostemata or Adephaga. Examples of Archostemata include Micromalthus priabonicus Perkovsky 2016 (Rovno amber) and Cupes groehni Kirejtshuk 2005 (Baltic and Rovno amber, Bukejs et al 2021), a new genus and species of thermophile tiger beetle (Matalin et al 2021), an endemic sphodrine species of the extinct genus Quasicalathus Schmidt & Will, 2022 in Baltic and Rovno ambers in Schmidt (et al 2022), an extinct lebiine genus known only from Rovno amber with two species (Kirichenko-Babko et al 2022a, b) and the new tropical paussine (Kirichenko-Babko & Perkovsky 2021) described here.…”

“…2023; Motyka et al . 2023; Nabozhenko & Perkovsky 2023) and a few belong to the Archostemata or Adephaga. Examples of Archostemata include Micromalthus priabonicus Perkovsky 2016 (Rovno amber) and Cupes groehni Kirejtshuk 2005 (Baltic and Rovno amber, Bukejs et al .…”