Volume XIII: The tertiary insects of North America

A new genus of fungus weevils (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) in Rovno amber

“…A total of 18 species from the eight genera of the tribes Cratoparini, Platystomini, Eugonini, Piesocorynini, Choragini and Valenfriesiini were described from Miocene Dominican and Mexican ambers (Poinar Jr. and Legalov, 2016). The Paleogene representatives of the subfamily Choraginae were known from the Eocene of the USA (Green River: Scudder, 1890) and the Oligocene of Germany (Rott: Heyden and Heyden, 1866). The species from tribes Choragini and Valenfriesiini were found in the Dominican amber.…”

The Neuropterid Fauna of Dominican and Mexican Amber (Neuropterida: Megaloptera, Neuroptera)

“…Although a veritable plethora of chrysopid fossils have been previously described or reported on (e.g., Adams, 1967;Carpenter, 1935;Cockerell, 1909Cockerell, , 1914Handlirsch, 1908;Handschin, 1937;Makarkin, 1991Makarkin, , 1994Martins-Neto and Vulcano, 1989c;Martynov, 1927;Nel and Henrotay, 1994;Nel and Séméria, 1986;Panfilov, 1980;Peñ alver et al, 1995;Ren and Guo, 1996;Schlü ter, 1982;Scudder, 1890;Séméria and Nel, 1990;Statz, 1936;Willmann and Brooks, 1991), none has been discovered in amber until now. Fossils recognizable as Chrysopidae (albeit of an extinct, plesiomorphic subfamily) are known as far back as the Late Jurassic.…”

Fossil insects from the Late Oligocene Enspel Lagerstätte and their palaeobiogeographic and palaeoclimatic significance

“…Insect taphocoenoses from lakes that presumably were not so deep often deviate from this dominance of beetles [e.g. Florissant (Scudder 1890), Rott (Statz 1940;Lutz 1996), Willershausen ]. Some possible underlying taphonomic reasons for this distribution have been discussed from various viewpoints (e.g.…”