Discovery of a Nitidulidae in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) with description of a new genus and taxonomic notes

Evolution of feeding habits of sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) and placement of Calonecrinae

“…Kirejtshuk & Mantič (2015) also suggested that Cline et al (2014) did not consider morphological synapomorphies uniting Cybocephalidae and Nitidulidae. The family-level rank of Cybocephalidae has been supported by subsequent molecular studies (Bocak et al, 2014;Zhang et al, 2018) and followed by some authors (e.g., Hisamatsu, 2013;Cline et al, 2015;Boukal & Mantič, 2017;Merkl et al, 2017), with others treating the group as a subfamily (e.g., Alekseev, 2017;Kirejtshuk & Chetverikov, 2018).…”

Protoliota paleus sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) – new long antennae beetle in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

“…The family Parandrexidae Kirejtshuk, 1994 is known only from the fossil state (Soriano et al 2006). Representatives of 15 families (Table 2) have been reported from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber (Cai & Huang 2016Cai et al 2018;Jin et al 2019;Kirejtshuk & Chetverikov 2018;Kirejtshuk et al 2019;Li et al 2021aLi et al , 2021bLi et al , 2022aLi et al , 2022bLi et al , 2022cLiu et al 2018Liu et al , 2019aLiu et al , 2019bPeris & Declòs 2015;Peris & Jelínek 2019Poinar & Brown 2018;Poinar & Kirejtshuk 2008;Tihelka et al 2020Tihelka et al , 2021aTihelka et al , 2021bTomaszewska et al 2018Tomaszewska et al , 2022Wu et al 2018;Zhao et al 2022).…”

The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England

“…In this paper, the Carpophiline lineage of the family was recorded somewhat earlier (Baissa, Middle Neocomian) than the Nitiduline lineages (Obeshtshayushtshiy Creek, Cenomanian), and some groups of both carpophiline and nitiduline lineages were also recognised among specimens from Montsec (Barremian, Lower Cretaceous) (Soriano et al . 2007) and Albian-Cenomanian Burmese amber (Kirejtshuk & Chetverikov 2018). During the Caenozoic, this family is mostly known from the Upper Eocene Baltic amber (recorded chiefly in lists without description by Klebs 1910; Larsson 1978; Spahr 1981; Hieke & Pietrzeniuk 1984), where all subfamilies of Nitidulidae have been found, except Amphicrossinae Kirejtshuk, 1986a and Cillaeinae Kirejtshuk & Audisio Kirejtshuk, 1986b.…”