Abstract
The first amber lycid taxon, Pseudaplatopterus Kleine, 1940, was discovered in Baltic amber in the middle of the 20th century (Kleine, 1940, 1941); after almost five decades another three Baltic amber genera, Hiekeolycus Winkler, 1987, Kolibaceum Winkler, 1987 and Pietrzeniukia Winkler, 1987 (Winkler, 1987) were added to the list of fossil Lycidae. However, Hiekeolycus was soon demonstrated to be synonymous with the extant Palaearctic lycid genus Helcophorus Fairmaire, 1891 (Kazantsev, 1995, 1997, 2004), while Pietrzeniukia turned out to be synonymous with Kolibaceum, representatives of which were found among the extant net-winged beetles of eastern Asia (Kazantsev, 1997, 2012a).
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