The first Phengodidae fossil (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Cretocydistus wittmeri gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.4.7" target="_blank" >https://www.mapress.com/pe/article/view/palaeoentomology.6.4.7</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.7" target="_blank" >10.11646/palaeoentomology.6.4.7</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

The first Phengodidae fossil (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): Cretocydistus wittmeri gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber

Original language description

Elateroidea superfamily holds a huge diversity, morphological variation and a myriad of habitat specializations. The presence of bioluminescence and paedomorphosis renders the group as an interesting model for several studies. The &quot;lampyroid&quot; clade manifests both features, in a variety of light displays and body-forms, but the small fossil records hampers any advance in understanding the origin of these characteristics, as well as the biogeographic history of the group. We present here the description of a new fossil species, Cretocydistus wittmeri gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous of northern Myanmar, the first fossil of the family Phengodidae. We putatively place the genus in the subfamily Cydistinae, which extant species are distributed in Asia Minor, the Levant, and Iran. We also discuss how the discovery of this fossil taxa influences the study of the family and the &quot;lampyroid&quot; clade evolutionary history and biogeography.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - 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

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2023

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Palaeoentomology

ISSN

2624-2826

e-ISSN

2624-2834

Volume of the periodical

6

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

NZ - NEW ZEALAND

Number of pages

9

Pages from-to

356-364

UT code for WoS article

001085823800007

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-85176923290