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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 1: February 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-02-28
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.1.9
Page range: 80-88
Abstract views: 129
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The first fossil insects from the marine Oligocene Menilite Formation in Poland (Odonata, Coleoptera)

Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB—UMR 7205—CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, Université des Antilles, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005 Paris, France
Laboratory of Nature Education and Conservation, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Uniwersytetu Poznańskiego 6, PL-61-614 Poznań, Poland
Muzeum Skamieniałości i Minerałów, ul. Krasickiego 3a, PL-37-750 Dubiecko, Poland
Kościelna 41, PL-35-505 Rzeszów, Poland
Insecta Zygoptera Carabidae Lestoidea sp. nov. diversity Cenozoic Odonata Coleoptera

Abstract

Lestes polonicus sp. nov. and Calosoma winnicaensis sp. nov., respectively, the first Oligocene Lestidae and Carabidae from Poland, are described from the marine Menilite Formation. Lestes polonicus sp. nov. is the ninth species of the Eocene-Oligocene Lestes group with a longitudinal intercalary row of cells in the area between MP and CuA, confirming its abundance and diversity during this period, and extending its distribution to the easternmost part of Central Europe. This group has not been recorded later during the Miocene and Pliocene. With the described species, the genus Calosoma seems to have been as diverse during the Oligocene as it is today in Europe.

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