The beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Baltic amber: the checklist of described species and preliminary analysis of biodiversity

Alekseev, Vitalii I.

doi:10.1080/21658005.2013.769717

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“…Only 10 genera of Baltic amber beetles have more than 4 species described, the most diverse of them being Pleurarthropterus (Coleoptera, Carabidae, Paussinae), with 12 known species (Alekseev, 2013). Th e two new species described in the present paper enlarge the distribution of the genus some 500 Km to the southeast (fi g. 1, 6) of the previous distribution based on S. sucini and S. bukejsi, which are found on the Baltic Sea shore.…”

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New Data on the Genus Sucinoptius (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from Rovno Amber

Bellés¹,

Perkovsky²

2016

Vestnik Zoologii

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New Data on the Genus Sucinoptinus (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from Rovno Amber. Bellés, X., Perkovsky, E. E. -Study of fi ve examples of spider beetle inclusions from Rovno amber revealed that at least three of these spider beetles belong to the genus Sucinoptinus Bellés et Vitali, 2007, of them, S. rovnoensis sp. n. (most probably from Klesov) and S. brevipennis sp. n. from Dubrovitsa are described. S. rovnoensis is similar to the previously known S. bukejsi Alekseev in having the same general structure of pronotum and elytra, diff ering from it by the morphology of pronotal sides, which are only slightly rounded and practically not constricted near the base, whereas in S. bukejsi the sides are well rounded leaving a slight but clear constriction near the base. S. brevipennis is similar to S. bukejsi Alekseev and S. sucini Bellés et Vitali in having the same general structure of the prothorax, but diff ering from them in having much shorter elytra. Addition of these two new species to the two previously known, S. sucini, from the eastern Baltic Sea coast, and S. bukejsi, from Kaliningrad Region, indicates that the genus Sucinoptinus was much more diverse and widespread in Late Eocene forests than former reports suggested.

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New Data on the Genus Sucinoptius (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from Rovno Amber

Bellés¹,

Perkovsky²

2016

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“…Fossils of the ground beetle genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 preserved in Baltic amber have been reported in a number of checklists on amber inclusions during the last hundred years (Klebs 1910, Bachofen-Echt 1949, Larsson 1978, Spahr 1981, Keilbach 1982, Hieke & Pietrzeniuk 1984, Alekseev 2013. However, the first representative of this genus was not described at the species level until recently: Trechus balticus Schmidt & Faille, 2015.…”

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“…al. 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014. Therefore, "eyelessness" as present in the fossil T. eoanophthalmus sp.n.…”

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Blind life in the Baltic amber forests: description of an eyeless species of the ground beetle genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)

Schmidt

Hoffmann

Michalik

2016

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The first eyeless beetle known from Baltic amber, Trechus eoanophthalmus sp. n., is described and imaged using light microscopy and X-ray micro-computed tomography. Based on external characters, the new species is most similar to species of the Palaearctic Trechus sensu stricto clade and seems to be closely related to the Baltic amber fossil T. balticus Schmidt & Faille, 2015. Due to the poor conservation of the internal parts of the body, no information on the genital characters can be provided. Therefore, the systematic position of this fossil within the megadiverse genus Trechus remains dubious. The occurrence of the blind and flightless T. eoanophthalmus sp. n. in the Baltic amber forests supports a previous hypothesis that these forests were located in an area partly characterised by mountainous habitats with temperate climatic conditions.

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“…Unfortunately, most references to Coleoptera in Baltic amber are only determined to family or generic levels. Thus far, only about 425 Coleoptera species have been described (Alekseev 2013), leaving the knowledge of the fauna of Eocene Baltic amber forests still inadequate. Studies of fossils, particularly inclusions in amber, are necessary because they provide an additional line of evidence and source of character data for reconstructing the phylogeny and resolving the evolutionary history of extant groups, as well as for understanding present-day distributions of more recent lineages.…”

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Glesirhanis bercioi, a new genus and species from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) with a checklist and nomenclatural notes regarding fossil Endomychidae

Shockley

Alekseev

2014

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A new genus and species of handsome fungus beetle, Glesirhanis bercioi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) is described from Baltic amber. The newly described genus is compared with all known extant and extinct genera of the subfamily. A key to the genera of Leiestinae including fossils and a checklist of fossil Endomychidae are provided. The status of two taxa previously placed in Endomychidae, Palaeoendomychus gymnus Zhang and Tetrameropsis mesozoica Kirejtshuk & Azar, is discussed, and a new status for the latter, elevating it to the family-level as Tetrameropseidae status nov., is proposed.

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The beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Baltic amber: the checklist of described species and preliminary analysis of biodiversity

Cited by 85 publications

References 3 publications

New Data on the Genus Sucinoptius (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from Rovno Amber

New Data on the Genus Sucinoptius (Coleoptera, Ptinidae) from Rovno Amber

Blind life in the Baltic amber forests: description of an eyeless species of the ground beetle genus Trechus Clairville, 1806 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Trechini)

Glesirhanis bercioi, a new genus and species from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) with a checklist and nomenclatural notes regarding fossil Endomychidae

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