Biodiversity of coleoptera

P Bouchard, ABT Smith, H Douglas… - … : science and society, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Taxonomic review of fossil coleopterous families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea

AG Kirejtshuk - Geosciences, 2020 - mdpi.com
The paper is the first of a series, which aims to present a consistent interpretation of the
suprageneric taxa of fossil beetles in the current century and their generic and species …

An extralimital fossil of the genus Diagrypnodes (Coleoptera: Salpingidae: Inopeplinae)

J Jenkins Shaw, E Perkovsky, A Ślipiński… - Historical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A new species of narrow-waisted bark beetle is described from Eocene Rovno
amber (Ukraine): Diagrypnodes villumi sp. nov.(Coleoptera: Salpingidae). This fossil refutes …

Coleoptera in amber from Cretaceous resiniferous forests

D Peris - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
In the world of insects, beetles rule. Evolutionary and palaeoecological interpretations using
fossil beetles from Cretaceous ambers have become increasingly frequent in recent years …

Untangling the evolution of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) and the evaluation of the morphological phylogenetic signal in a soft‐bodied elateroid lineage

M Motyka, D Kusy, G Biffi, M Geiser, SV Kazantsev… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This study addresses the long‐standing uncertainty about the internal classification of
soldier beetles (Elateroidea: Cantharidae). Four datasets were compiled and analysed: 66 …

[PDF][PDF] Palaeoentomological (fossil insects) outcrops in Lebanon

S Maksoud, BRC Granier, D Azar - Carnets de Géologie, 2022 - scholar.archive.org
With 35 Cretaceous outcrops yielding fossil insects, either in amber or as rock (marls,
limestones, cinerite, or dysodile) impressions-compressions (adpressions), Lebanon has …

[HTML][HTML] Evolutionary and paleobiological implications of Coleoptera (Insecta) from Tethyan-influenced Cretaceous ambers

D Peris, E Ruzzier, V Perrichot, X Delclòs - Geoscience Frontiers, 2016 - Elsevier
The intense study of coleopteran inclusions from Spanish (Albian in age) and French (Albian–
Santonian in age) Cretaceous ambers, both of Laurasian origin, has revealed that the …

The first mainland European Mesozoic click-beetle (Coleoptera: Elateridae) revealed by X-ray micro-computed tomography scanning of an Upper Cretaceous amber …

M Szabó, R Kundrata, J Hoffmannova, T Németh… - Scientific Reports, 2022 - nature.com
Fossil bioinclusions in amber are invaluable source of information on the past evolution and
diversity of various organisms, as well as on the paleoecosystems in general. The click …

[HTML][HTML] Diversity of Scydmaeninae (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) in Upper Eocene Rovno amber

P Jałoszyński, E Perkovsky - Zootaxa, 2016 - mapress.com
Among nearly 1270 inclusions of Coleoptera found in Upper Eocene Rovno amber, 69 were
identified as ant-like stone beetles (Scydmaeninae); 34 were possible to unambiguously …

[HTML][HTML]  On the nomenclatural status of type genera in Coleoptera (Insecta)

P Bouchard, Y Bousquet, AE Davies, C Cai - ZooKeys, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
 Abstract More than 4700 nominal family-group names (including names for fossils and
ichnotaxa) are nomenclaturally available in the order Coleoptera. Since each family-group …