The first firefly fossil (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Dominican amber

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Alternative codes found
RIV/61989592:15640/24:73628106
Result on the web
<a href="https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.7.5.3" target="_blank" >https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.7.5.3</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.3" target="_blank" >10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.3</a>

Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The first firefly fossil (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) from Dominican amber
Original language description
Fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae) comprise ~2,500 extant species worldwide. Considering the extant diversity of firefly species, their fossil record is scant, with only eight taxa across four subfamilies: Luciolinae, Ototretinae, Lamprohizinae, and Lampyrinae. Dominican amber may have the best quality of preservation among fossil resins, with a rich diversity of fossil specimens from the early Miocene (20–15 Ma). However, no firefly taxon was previously known from this deposit. Here, we describe the first Lampyridae fossil from Dominican amber. It represents a new species of the extant Neotropical genus Lychnacris Motschulsky, 1853, which has 19 extant species known from the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean.
Czech name
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Czech description
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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

Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

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