New Genera and Species of the Family Throscidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber

Yan-Da Li; Di-Ying Huang; Chen-Yang Cai

doi:10.3390/insects12010063

New Genera and Species of the Family Throscidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea) in Mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber

Insects. 2021 Jan 12;12(1):63. doi: 10.3390/insects12010063.

Authors

Yan-Da Li^{1

2}, Di-Ying Huang¹, Chen-Yang Cai^{1

3}

Affiliations

¹ State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China.
² School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China.
³ School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK.

Abstract

Captopus depressiceps gen. et sp. nov., Electrothroscus yanpingae gen. et sp. nov. and Pseudopactopus robustus gen. et sp. nov. are reported from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. These new findings greatly extend the Mesozoic diversity of Throscidae, which implies a high degree of morphological disparity for this family in the Cretaceous.

Keywords: Burmese amber; Mesozoic; Throscidae; palaeodiversity.

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