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Issue: Vol. 5032 No. 2: 7 Sept. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-09-07
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5032.2.4
Page range: 225-236
Abstract views: 499
PDF downloaded: 29

First fossil representative of Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) described using X-ray micro-computed tomography, from Eocene Baltic amber

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada.
Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St., Regina, SK, S4P 4W7, Canada.
Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada.
Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 0C4, Canada
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia.
Coleoptera Ostomopsinae fossil insect minute bark beetles Cenozoic Paleogene fossil resin

Abstract

Based on material originating from five amber collections of Eocene Baltic amber, Protostomopsis pandema gen. et sp. nov. is described and illustrated using X-ray micro-computed tomography. It is the first formally described extinct species of Cerylonidae, and the first known Palaearctic representative of the subfamily Ostomopsinae. As such, the new species extends the temporal range of the family Cerylonidae by approximately 45 Ma.

 

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