First clown beetle (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Middle Miocene Mexican amber
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11310%2F25%3A10506140" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11310/25:10506140 - isvavai.cz</a>
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=oIgz1iBl6s" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=oIgz1iBl6s</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.5.4" target="_blank" >10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.5.4</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
First clown beetle (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from Middle Miocene Mexican amber
Original language description
The polyphagan family of clown beetles (Coleoptera: Histeridae) is represented by over 4,800 species with worldwide distribution. It is well-known for the diversity of exploited habitats and remarkable morphological adaptations, which evolved in relation to habitat shifts (Kovarik & Caterino, 2016). The origin of the family has been estimated to the mid-Jurassic based on phylogenomic analyses (Kusý et al., 2025). The earliest known fossils appeared in the Cretaceous Period, with the oldest fossils from the Lower Cretaceous Hkamti amber (ca. 110 Ma) of northern Myanmar (Caterino & Yamamoto, 2023; Simon-Pražák et al., 2024). There are currently over 50 described fossil species of clown beetles with most of them found in Cretaceous and Eocene ambers. Only a single species has been formally described from the Miocene age ambers (i.e., Trypanaeus hispaniolus Chatzimanolis et al., 2006; from Middle Miocene Dominican amber of the Dominican Republic).
Czech name
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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
10613 - Zoology
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach<br>I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
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
Palaeoentomology
ISSN
2624-2826
e-ISSN
2624-2834
Volume of the periodical
8
Issue of the periodical within the volume
5
Country of publishing house
NZ - NEW ZEALAND
Number of pages
4
Pages from-to
483-486
UT code for WoS article
001619584100004
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105022158217