Telnov Dmitry, Perkovsky Evgeny E, Vasilenko Dmitry V, Yamamoto Shûhei
Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, SW7 5BD, London, UK Natural History Museum London United Kingdom.
Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, O. Vācieša iela 4, LV-1004, Rīga, Latvia University of Latvia Rīga Latvia.
Zookeys. 2021 Nov 8;1068:189-201. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.1068.75391. eCollection 2021.
(Coleoptera, Mycteridae), representing the first ever fossil species of Coleoptera from the Volyn Region of Ukraine and the first mycterid from late Eocene Rovno amber, is described and illustrated. A key to species of the fossil mycterid genus Alekseev, Pollock & Bukejs, 2019 is presented. The systematic position of within Eurypinae J. Thomson, 1860 is briefly discussed. The oldest finding of phoretic Winterschmidtiidae Oudemans, 1923 mites, found on the type specimen of the new beetle species, is reported.
描述并图示了一种(鞘翅目,菌食甲科)昆虫,它代表了乌克兰沃伦地区有史以来首个鞘翅目化石物种,也是始新世晚期罗夫诺琥珀中的首个菌食甲科昆虫。文中给出了2019年描述的化石菌食甲科Alekseev、Pollock和Bukejs属物种的检索表。简要讨论了该物种在1860年J. Thomson的阔甲亚科中的系统位置。报道了在这种新甲虫物种的模式标本上发现的最古老的携播温氏螨科螨虫。