Burma terrane amber fauna shows connections to Gondwana and transported Gondwanan lineages to the northern hemisphere (Araneae: Palpimanoidea)

HM Wood, J Wunderlich - Systematic Biology, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Burmese amber is a significant source of fossils that documents the mid-Cretaceous biota.
This deposit was formed around 99 Ma on the Burma Terrane, which broke away from …

Minute moss beetles in the Southern Hemisphere: Molecular phylogeny, historical biogeography and habitat shifts (Coleoptera: Hydraenidae)

DT Bilton, MA Jäch, I Ribera… - Systematic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Minute moss beetles (Hydraenidae) are one of the most speciose and widespread families
of aquatic Coleoptera, with an estimated 4000 extant species, found in the majority of …

Mesozoic sooty mould beetles as living relicts in New Zealand

ML Gimmel, K Szawaryn, C Cai… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - royalsocietypublishing.org
New Zealand is an island continent that completed its split from the Gondwanan continent at
52 Ma, harbouring an iconic biota of tuatara, kiwi and weta. The sooty mould community is a …

The hind wing of Coleoptera (Insecta): morphology, nomenclature and phylogenetic significance: Part 2. Further discussion, Histeroidea, Bostrichoidea to …

JF Lawrence, YL Zhou, C Lemann, B Sinclair… - Annales Zoologici, 2022 - BioOne
Part 2 of this work includes a review of morphological and systematic work on Histeridae
(G07, revision), Bostrichoidea (G15), Coccinelloidea (G16), Lymexyloidea+ Tenebrionoidea …

Multiple lineages of hyper‐diverse Zopheridae beetles survived the New Zealand Oligocene Drowning

TR Buckley, NP Lord, A Ramón-Laca… - Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim During the late Oligocene (23 mya) the New Zealand landmass was reduced to
approximately 18% of its current area. It has been hypothesized that this event, known as the …

Parabolitobius antiquus sp. nov., the first Mesozoic amber inclusion of mycetoporine rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Mycetoporinae)

S Yamamoto - Journal of Asia-Pacific Entomology, 2023 - Elsevier
The rove beetle subfamily Tachyporinae was recently divided into the Tachyporinae and
Mycetoporinae subfamilities. Fossil records of mycetoporines are relatively rare, and no …

[PDF][PDF] The smallest stag beetles (Coleoptera, Lucanidae): hidden paleodiversity in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from northern Myanmar

S Yamamoto - Evolutionary Systematics, 2023 - evolsyst.pensoft.net
The fossil record of stag beetles (Lucanidae), especially in Mesozoic amber, is sparse. Four
additional fossil lucanids preserved in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber from northern …

First fossil eleusinin rove beetle (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Osoriinae: Eleusinini) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber of northern Myanmar and its evolutionary …

S Yamamoto - Palaeoworld, 2024 - Elsevier
Eleusinini is the smallest osoriine tribe, consisting of 221 species in three genera. No fossil
Eleusinini has been found until now. Here, I describe the first extinct representative of …

Mastigocoleidae fam. nov., a new Mesozoic beetle family and the early evolution of Dryopoidea (Coleoptera)

E Tihelka, MA Jäch, R Kundrata, YD Li… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Abstract With some 3,700 described species, Dryopoidea are a moderately diverse
superfamily of beetles whose position within basal Polyphaga has been historically difficult …

A new fossil genus of minute-clubbed beetles (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Monotomidae) from Paleogene amber of Europe

VI Alekseev, A Bukejs - Historical Biology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new genus and species of Monotomidae, Rovnoeurops mckellari gen. et sp.
nov., placed in the tribe Europini, is described and figured from Late Eocene Rovno amber …