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Eocene and not Cretaceous origin of spider wasps: Fossil evidence from amber [PDF]
Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 2016 Spider wasps had long been proposed to originate in the mid-Cretaceous based on the Burmese amber fossil Bryopompilus interfector Engel and Grimaldi, 2006.
Juanita Rodriguez +4 more
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Groehnius, a new genus of Eugnomini (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2019 A new weevil, Groehnius electrum Bukejs and Legalov, gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Curculionidae: Curculioninae), is described from Eocene Baltic amber. This new genus is similar to the genus Archaeoeugnomus Legalov, 2016 from Baltic amber but differs in
A. Bukejs, A. A. Legalov, A. A. Legalov
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A new Myrmecarchaea (Araneae: Archaeidae) species from Oise amber (earliest Eocene, France)
BSGF - Earth Sciences Bulletin, 2020 Extant Archaeidae, also known as pelican or assassin spiders, have an Austral distribution (South Africa, Madagascar and Australia), but were present in Eurasia during the Mesozoic and Cenozoic, as attested by fossils from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Ross ...
Carbuccia Benjamin +4 more
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Scientific Reports, 2023 This study details the quality of preservation of amber deposits in the Eocene. Through Baltic amber crack-out studies using Synchrotron Micro-Computed Tomography and Scanning Electron Microscopy it was found that the cuticle of a specimen of leaf beetle
Jerit L. Mitchell +4 more
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An ant-associated mesostigmatid mite in Baltic amber. [PDF]
Biol Lett, 2014 Fossil mesostigmatid mites (Acari: Parasitiformes: Mesostigmata) are extremely rare, and specimens from only nine families, including four named species, have been described so far. A new record ofMyrmozerconsp. described here from Eocene (ca44–49 Myr) Baltic amber represents the first—and so far only—fossil example of the derived, extant family ...
Dunlop JA +3 more
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The first described turtle beetles from Eocene Baltic amber, with notes on fossil Chelonariidae (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea) [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2021 Chelonariidae, or turtle beetles, are rarely represented in the fossil record. Two new extinct species of this thermophilous coleopteran family, Chelonarium andabata Alekseev and Bukejs sp. nov. and Ch. dingansich Alekseev and Bukejs sp.
V. I. Alekseev +8 more
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Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift, 2014 The present paper is a continuation of previous contributions describing fossil Aradus species from Baltic Amber inclusions (Heiss 1998, 2002, 2013). Aradus macrosomus sp. n.
Ernst Heiss
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Rhyacophila quadrata n. sp., a new caddisfly (Insecta, Trichoptera) from Eocene Baltic amber [PDF]
Fossil Record, 2008 Rhyacophila quadrata n. sp., a new fossil caddisfly, is described from Eocene Baltic amber. The new species belongs to the family Rhyacophilidae whose extant larvae prefer cool running-water habitats.
W. Wichard, C. Neumann
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A new genus of Medeterinae (Diptera: Dolichopodidae) from Baltic amber [PDF]
Кавказский энтомологический бюллетень, 2010 A new genus, Medeterites gen. n. (Diptera: Dolichopodidae: Medeterinae) is described from Baltic amber with one included species, Medeterites molestus (Meunier, 1907) (Thrypticus), comb. n. The genus is similar to the genera of the subfamily Medeterinae,
I.Ya. Grichanov
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Spongillaflies (Neuroptera, Sisyridae) in Baltic amber
Zootaxa, 2016 Two spongillaflies species are described and illustrated from Eocene Baltic amber: Paleosisyra minor n. sp. and Paleosisyra electrobaltica Wichard et al., 2009; the latter species was described based on a female and is now re-described in consideration of the male genitalia of two new male specimens.
Wichard, Wilfried +2 more
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