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

作者：Chatzimanolis Stylianos^*; Cashion Molly E; Engel Michael S; Falin Zachary H

来源：Geodiversitas, 2012, 34(3): 569-574.

DOI：10.5252/g2012n3a6

• Polyphaga
• Elateriformia
• Albian
• Mesozoic
• Burma
• taxonomy
• new genus
• new species

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.

• 出版日期2012