First fossil jewel beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Middle Miocene deposits in Bulgaria

Simov, Nikolay; Langourov, Mario; Sakalian, Vladimir; Bozukov, Vladimir

doi:10.48027/hnb.42.052

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“…Numerous adult specimens are known in Jurassic (Whalley & Jarzembowski, 1985;Alekseev, 1993;Alexeev, 1999Alexeev, , 2000Pan et al, 2011) and Cretaceous sedimentary rocks (Whalley & Jarzembowski, 1985;Alekseev, 1993;Alexeev, 1999Alexeev, , 2000Molino-Olmedo, 2011;yu et al, 2013). Sedimentary rocks have also provided jewel beetle fossils in the Cenozoic (e.g., Ortuño & Arillo, 2000;Simov et al, 2021). There are also some fossils in amber (e.g., Bellamy, 1999), but at least some of these seem to be challenging concerning their interpretation (Bellamy, 1995).…”

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The earliest record of fossil solid-wood-borer larvae—immature beetles in 99 million-year-old Myanmar amber

Haug

Zippel

et al. 2021

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Interactions between animals and plants represent an important driver of evolution. Especially the group Insecta has an enormous impact on plants, e.g., by consuming them. Among beetles, the larvae of different groups (Buprestidae, Cerambycidae, partly Eucnemidae) bore into wood and are therefore called wood-borer larvae or borers. While adults of these beetle groups are well known in the fossil record, there are barely any fossils of the corresponding larvae. We report here four new wood-borer larvae from Cretaceous Kachin amber (Myanmar, ca. 99 Ma). To compare these fossils with extant wood-borer larvae, we reconstructed the body outline and performed shape analysis via elliptic Fourier transformation and a subsequent principal component analysis. Two of the new larvae plot closely together and clearly in the same area as modern representatives of Buprestidae. As they furthermore lack legs, they are interpreted as representatives of Buprestidae. The other two new larvae possess legs and plot far apart from each other. They are more difficult to interpret; they may represent larvae of early offshoots of either Cerambycidae or Buprestidae, which still retain longer legs. These findings represent the earliest fossil record of larvae of Buprestidae and possibly of Cerambycidae known to date.

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The earliest record of fossil solid-wood-borer larvae—immature beetles in 99 million-year-old Myanmar amber

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Zippel

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Giant pelobatid fossil larva from the middle Miocene of Bulgaria

Vergilov¹,

Tzankov²

2021

Hist. nat. bulg.

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So far, in Bulgaria several fossils of extinct anuran species have been found, but all seem doubtful. Only two pelobatid remains have been found from the Balkans and the regions - younger species (Late Pleistocene) of the genus Pelobates from Serbia and Miocene Pelobates sp. from Turkey. The fossil in the current study represents a larva of the genus Eopelobates, the first discovery of this genus not only for Bulgaria but for the Balkans as well. This pelobatid larva is gigantic, more than 200 mm in total length. The fossil is found in a diatomitian complex from the middle Miocene.

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Problematic fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of western Bulgaria might be the first record of Mesozoic insects in the country

Nikolov,

Simov,

Vasile

et al. 2024

Rev. Bulg. Geol. Soc.

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Recent work at the Upper Cretaceous vertebrate locality near the town of Tran, western Bulgaria, brought to light a diverse assemblage of plant mesofossils and other microfossils of uncertain systematic affinities. Here we briefly report on 18 problematic specimens that share a striking morphological similarity to the Late Cretaceous Knoblochia cretacea, an ichnotaxon thought to be an insect egg. This material appears to represent the first record of Mesozoic insects from Bulgaria.

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First fossil jewel beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Buprestidae) from Middle Miocene deposits in Bulgaria

Abstract: The first fossil jewel beetle discovered in Bulgaria is reported from deposits of the Satovcha Basin dated to the Middle Miocene.

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The earliest record of fossil solid-wood-borer larvae—immature beetles in 99 million-year-old Myanmar amber

The earliest record of fossil solid-wood-borer larvae—immature beetles in 99 million-year-old Myanmar amber

Giant pelobatid fossil larva from the middle Miocene of Bulgaria

Problematic fossils from the Upper Cretaceous of western Bulgaria might be the first record of Mesozoic insects in the country

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