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Issue: Vol. 5723 No. 4: 27 Nov. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-11-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.4
Page range: 533-549
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First adult of false flower beetle (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar, with taxonomical notes and a checklist of fossil representatives of the family

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; A. Nevskii str. 14; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia
Private Entomological Laboratory & Collection; Rýznerova str. 37/37; Únětice u Prahy; Prague-west; CZ-25262; Czech Republic
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies; Daugavpils University; Vienības 13; Daugavpils LV-5401; Latvia
Coleoptera Tenebrionoidea taxonomy fossil resins paleodiversity new taxa new placements

Abstract

Cretoscraptella crucifera gen. et sp. nov. is described as the first named representative of the tribe Allopodini (Scraptiidae) from the Mesozoic amber deposits, based on a single adult beetle inclusion in mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber, northern Myanmar (ca. 99 Ma). The systematic placement of Quasianisoxya curonensis Alekseev, 2015 (originally attributed to Melandryidae) and Samlandotoma seidlitzi Alekseev, 2019 (family incertae sedis within Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber are revisited. These previously misplaced Cenozoic species are transferred to the tribe Scraptiini within Scraptiidae. A checklist of known fossil scraptiids beetles (18 described species in 9 genera) is compiled and provided.

 

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Alekseev, V., Háva, J. & Bukejs, A. (2025) First adult of false flower beetle (Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar, with taxonomical notes and a checklist of fossil representatives of the family. Zootaxa, 5723 (4), 533–549. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5723.4.4