The first record of a predaceous clerid beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from the Cretaceous Taimyr amber
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00094862%3A_____%2F25%3A10001094" target="_blank" >RIV/00094862:_____/25:10001094 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667124002490?via%3Dihub" target="_blank" >https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0195667124002490?via%3Dihub</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106076" target="_blank" >10.1016/j.cretres.2024.106076</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The first record of a predaceous clerid beetle (Coleoptera: Cleridae) from the Cretaceous Taimyr amber
Original language description
Cleroid beetle Aiytillus agapensis gen. et sp. nov. is described from upper Cenomanian Taimyr amber. Thisis the first finding of a predatory checkered beetle (Cleridae) in the Cretaceous. Based on the tarsi withequally large tarsomeres 1e4, the fossil is unambiguously assigned to the basal clerid subfamily Tillinae.The fossil was found near the Nizhnyaya Agapa River in the upper horizon of the Dolgan Formationduring an expedition in 1973. Although damaged by improper preservation, the fossil exhibits a numberof interesting morphological details including extremely small body (less than 3 mm), long serratedantenna, pretarsal claw with denticle, and comb-like protibial structures. The unusually long antennatogether with the aforementioned morphological characters resembles another small tilline fossil Bilbotillusglum Kolibac from Baltic Amber, although the latter is about 60 My younger. The presence ofmodern looking clerids in the Middle Jurassic of NE China as well as in Taimyr and Baltic ambers, andconversely their absence in burmite, may indicate the origin of the family in temperate rather thantropical conditions.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
10616 - Entomology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Cretaceous research
ISSN
0195-6671
e-ISSN
1095-998X
Volume of the periodical
2025
Issue of the periodical within the volume
168
Country of publishing house
NL - THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS
Number of pages
8
Pages from-to
1-8
UT code for WoS article
001399284800001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85214116037