Nabozhenko Maxim V, Perkovsky Evgeny E
1Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev str., 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan 367000, Russia. .
3I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitskogo 15, 01030 Kiev, Ukraine. 4A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117647 Russia.
Zootaxa. 2023 Jan 20;5230(2):245-250. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5230.2.8.
A new species of the currently Oriental alleculine genus Oracula Novák, 2019 is described from the Eocene Rovno amber, Ukraine: O. campbelli sp. n. This is the first report of a representative of the family Tenebrionidae from this Lagerstätte. Extant species of Oracula occur in Nepal, southern China (Yunnan), Thailand, Laos and Indonesia. The newly discovered extinct species is similar to extant O. amica Novák, 2019 from Nepal.
2019年,一种来自乌克兰始新世罗夫诺琥珀的东方拟谷盗属新物种被描述:坎贝尔拟谷盗(Oracula campbelli sp. n.)。这是该化石库中拟步甲科的首次报道。拟谷盗现存物种分布于尼泊尔、中国南部(云南)、泰国、老挝和印度尼西亚。新发现的灭绝物种与来自尼泊尔的现存物种阿米卡拟谷盗(Oracula amica Novák, 2019)相似。