A new genus of Ptilodactylidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma)

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Sep 2012 English Publisher:Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris, FranceJournal:Geodiversitas, volume 34, pages 569-574 (issn: 1280-9659, eissn: 1638-9395,

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Authors: Chatzimanolis, Stylianos; Cashion, Molly E.; Engel, Michael S.; Falin, Zachary H.;

doi: 10.5252/g2012n3a6

A new genus of Ptilodactylidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) in mid-Cretaceous amber from Myanmar (Burma)

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ABSTRACT The first Mesozoic fossil of the beetle family Ptilodactylidae Laporte, 1836 (Byrrhoidea) is formally described and figured from a male preserved in latest Albian amber from Myanmar. Aphebodactyla rhetine n. gen., n. sp., is distinguished from its modern relatives and is only the second fossil species yet formally described in the family. The fossil intermingles putatively derived features of various ptilodactylid subfamilies, suggesting that the current circumscription of these lineages is in dire need of revision.

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Coleoptera, Insecta, Arthropoda, Ptilodactylidae, Animalia, Biodiversity, Taxonomy

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