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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 4: (In progress) August 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-08-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.4.10
Page range: 428-438
Abstract views: 133
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Anaspis Geoffroy, 1762 subgenus Spanisa Emery, 1876 (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) as Paleogene relicts

Department of Life Sciences, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, SW7 5BD, London, United Kingdom; Coleopterological Research Center, Institute of Life Sciences and Technology, Daugavpils University, LV-5401, Daugavpils, Latvia; Institute of Biology, University of Latvia, O. Vācieša iela 4, LV-1004, Rīga, Latvia
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, DK-2100, Copenhagen, Denmark; I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kyiv 01030, Ukraine
Coleoptera Scraptiidae Anaspidinae fossils taxonomy morphology palaeodiversity key distribution

Abstract

Anaspis (Spanisa) solodovnikovi sp. nov., the second known representative of its genus and subgenus from the late Eocene Rovno amber of Ukraine, is described and illustrated. The taxonomic position is confirmed, and supplementary description and images are provided for the Eocene Baltic amber A. (Silaria) parva Abdullah, 1964. A key to extant and extinct species of the subgenus Spanisa Emery, 1876 is presented for the first time. Morphology and new taxonomic position of Anaspis (incertae sedis) subhumerosa Franciscolo, 1954 are briefly discussed; this species is excluded from the subgenus Spanisa. Extant Spanisa species are allopatric, but in Rovno amber they are sympatric likely because of their adaptation to the ‘extinct’ equable Eocene climate. New faunistic records are provided for the extant A. (Spanisa) labiata A. Costa, 1854 and A. (Spanisa) subtilis Hampe, 1871.

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