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A new marsh beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scirtidae).

ABSTRACT: As one of the earliest-diverging lineage of the megadiverse beetle suborder Polyphaga, marsh beetles (Scirtidae) are crucial for reconstructing the ancestor of all polyphagan beetles and the ecomorphological underpinnings of their remarkable evolutionary success. The phylogeny of marsh beetles has nonetheless remained challenging to infer, not least because of their fragmentary Mesozoic fossil record. Here we describe a new scirtid beetle genus and species, Varcalium lawrencei gen. et sp. nov., preserving internal tissue, from Albian-Cenomanian Kachin amber (ca 99 Ma), representing the second member of this family known from the deposit. Based on a formal morphological phylogenetic analysis, Varcalium is recovered within the crown-group of Scirtinae, forming a clade with other genera that possess subocular carinae. The finding suggests that the crown-group of Scirtinae has already diversified by the mid-Cretaceous.

SUBMITTER: Li YD

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9352693 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

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A new marsh beetle from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Scirtidae).

Li Yan-Da YD Ruta Rafał R Tihelka Erik E Liu Zhen-Hua ZH Huang Di-Ying DY Cai Chen-Yang CY

Scientific reports 20220804 1

As one of the earliest-diverging lineage of the megadiverse beetle suborder Polyphaga, marsh beetles (Scirtidae) are crucial for reconstructing the ancestor of all polyphagan beetles and the ecomorphological underpinnings of their remarkable evolutionary success. The phylogeny of marsh beetles has nonetheless remained challenging to infer, not least because of their fragmentary Mesozoic fossil record. Here we describe a new scirtid beetle genus and species, Varcalium lawrencei gen. et sp. nov., ...[more]

PMID: 35927559

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