<i>Poliaenus europaeus</i> n. sp., the first cerambycid from Rovno amber (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)

Vitali, Francesco; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.

doi:10.1080/08912963.2022.2082295

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“…The new Rovno amber pleasing fungus beetle specimen was purchased from an amber dealer, who obtained the amber mostly in the Varash district of the Rovno region, the most important source of the new Rovno amber taxa in the last few years [ 30 , 32 , 33 , 38 , 40 , 41 , 45 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 ]. It was included in the clear piece of amber, weighting 7.6 g after the primary treatment.…”

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“…Rovno amber biota was reviewed in [ 22 , 23 , 24 ], [ 25 ] and references therein). More than 70 beetle species from 35 families [ 17 , 19 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31 , 32 , 33 , 34 , 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 , 50 , 51 , 52 , 53 ] are reported; less than 15% of Rovno beetle species are known from Baltic amber [ 53 , 54 , 55 ] and references therein.…”

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Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

Lyubarsky

Perkovsky

Vasilenko

2023

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Xenophagus simutniki sp. n. is described from a late Eocene Rovno amber specimen. The new species is similar to the fossil Xenophagus popovi Lyubarsky et Perkovsky, 2017 from the late Eocene Baltic amber (W Russia), differing in the medially notched anterior margin of the pronotum. The Rovno xenosceline fauna is the richest among both extant and extinct faunas. This fauna includes the extinct genera Xenophagus Lyubarsky & Perkovsky, 2017 and Xenohimatium Lyubarsky & Perkovsky, 2012, which are closest to the extant Mediterranean Xenoscelis Wollaston 1864 and the representative of the extant boreal genus Zavaljus Reitter, 1880. A key to extinct species of the subfamily Xenoscelinae is presented. The possible reasons of xenoscelines abundance in European amber forests are discussed.

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Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

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Vasilenko

2023

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“…Zhovkini is one of the new localities from Varash District, that yielded dozens new taxa (Colombo et al 2021;Golub et al 2021;Simutnik et al 2021b;Vitali and Perkovsky 2022;Yamamoto et al 2022); Zhovkini inclusions comprise new cicadellids (Dietrich, pers. com.…”

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Protaphycus shuvalikovi Simutnik gen. et sp. nov. (Chalcidoidea, Encyrtidae, Encyrtinae) from Rovno amber

Simutnik¹,

Perkovsky²,

Vasilenko³

2022

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Protaphycus shuvalikovi Simutnik gen. et sp. nov., the smallest fossil Encyrtidae, is described and illustrated based on female specimen from late Eocene Rovno amber. Like most previously described Eocene Encyrtidae, the new taxon differs from the majority of extant encyrtids by the subapical position of the cerci, the relatively long marginal vein of the forewing, a distinctly swollen but not triangular parastigma, and a seta marking the apex of the postmarginal vein is not any longer than others on this vein. The new genus is characterized by the presence of a filum spinosum and the hypopygium reaching way past the apex of syntergum. This combination of the character states is known only in a few representatives of extant Encyrtinae. The new genus, probably, most closely related to the extant genus Aphycus Mayr, 1876.

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“…These finds demonstrate that solid-wood-borer larvae may be not as rarely preserved in ambers as assumed. Larval forms preserved in amber seem to be less intensely studied than adults (examples for adults in Eocene amber: Larsson 1978;Bellamy 1995;Vitali 2009aVitali , b, 2014Vitali and Perkovsky 2022) as these are less easy to be interpreted in a phylogenetic framework. Adults of solid wood-borer beetle larvae have been found in Eocene ambers quite often in comparison to the occurrence of such adults in modern resins (Zherikhin et al 2009).…”

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35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests

Haug

Baranov

Hörnig

et al. 2022

Palaeobio Palaeoenv

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Eocene amber is an important window into the past about 35 million years ago. The large quantities of resin produced by this forest of the past, resulting in amber, triggered the idea of a forest under stress. Recent findings of higher abundances of hoverfly larvae in Eocene amber, in the modern fauna often associated with wood-borer larvae, provided a hint that wood-borer larvae may have contributed to this stress. Yet, so far only few such larvae have been reported. We have compiled a dozen additional wood-borer larvae in amber, including a giant one of at least 35 mm length in Rovno amber. Heavily damaged fossils furthermore indicate that larger larvae of this type were prone to oxidation and that, at least some, enigmatic tube-like tunnels in larger amber pieces may represent remains of large wood-borer larvae. This find strongly indicates that wood-borer larvae were not rare, but common in the Eocene amber forest, which is compatible with the high abundances of hoverfly larvae and further supports the idea of a forest under stress. Whether the possible higher abundances of wood-borer larvae were the cause of the stress or a symptom of an already stressed forest remains so far unclear.

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Poliaenus europaeus n. sp., the first cerambycid from Rovno amber (Coleoptera Cerambycidae)

Cited by 13 publications

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Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

Protaphycus shuvalikovi Simutnik gen. et sp. nov. (Chalcidoidea, Encyrtidae, Encyrtinae) from Rovno amber

35 million-year-old solid-wood-borer beetle larvae support the idea of stressed Eocene amber forests

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