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 …

[HTML][HTML] A new fossil species of Attagenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in Rovno and Baltic ambers, with a brief review of known fossil beetles from the Rovno …

A Bukejs, J Háva, VI Alekseev - Fossil Record, 2020 - fr.copernicus.org
Based on two specimens originating from Eocene Rovno and Baltic ambers, Attagenus
(Aethriostoma) gedanicissimus sp. nov. is described, illustrated and compared with the …

[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 …

Molecular phylogeny of Dermestidae (Coleoptera) reveals the polyphyletic nature of Trogoderma Latreille and the taxonomic placement of the Khapra Beetle …

YL Zhou, JA Nicholls, ZH Liu, D Hartley… - Insect Systematics …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The hide, larder, and carpet beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) are a family of mainly
scavenger beetles, with numerous species such as the khapra beetle (Trogoderma …

[HTML][HTML] The fossil record of Elateridae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Described species, current problems and future prospects

R Kundrata, G Packova, AS Prosvirov, J Hoffmannova - Insects, 2021 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Beetle fossils play an important role in our understanding of the origin and
evolutionary history of this insect order. Despite the recently increasing rate of fossil …

Evolutionary stasis in enigmatic jacobsoniid beetles

S Yamamoto, Y Takahashi, J Parker - Gondwana Research, 2017 - Elsevier
Jacobsoniidae is a small but perplexing beetle family, with unknown phylogenetic
relationships to other polyphagan Coleoptera. To date, only a single fossil jacobsoniid has …

New barklice (Psocodea, Trogiomorpha) from Lower Cretaceous Spanish amber

S Álvarez‐Parra, E Peñalver, A Nel… - Papers in …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Barklice are insects belonging to the order Psocodea. They are herbivorous or detritivorous,
and inhabit a wide range of environments. Their oldest fossil record dates back to the late …

Syninclusions of two new species of short-winged flower beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar)

D Peris, J Jelínek - Cretaceous Research, 2020 - Elsevier
Evidence of behavior is rarely found in fossil record. Here we describe two new species in
Coleoptera tentatively described in Kateretidae based on two syninclusions (co-occurrences …

[PDF][PDF] More than dead males: reconstructing the ontogenetic series of terrestrial non-biting midges from the Eocene amber forest

V Baranov, C Hoffeins, H Hoffeins… - Bulletin of Geosciences, 2019 - academia.edu
Materials and methods Material.–The amber was obtained from a commercial source in
Yantarnyj, Kaliningrad District (formerly Palmnicken, Königsberg) in 2005. Currently it is part …

Biological inclusions in amber from the Paleogene Chickaloon Formation of Alaska

DA Grimaldi, D Sunderlin, GA Aaroe… - American Museum …, 2018 - BioOne
ABSTRACT The Chickaloon Formation in south-central Alaska contains rich coal deposits
dated very close to the Paleocene-Eocene boundary, immediately beneath which occur …