Skip to main content Skip to main navigation menu Skip to site footer
Responsive image
Issue: Vol. 4966 No. 1: 30 Apr. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-04-30
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.1.8
Page range: 77–83
Abstract views: 87
PDF downloaded: 91

Murcybolus gen. nov., a new net-winged beetle genus from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Burmolycini)

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 School of Life Sciences, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China
School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, United Kingdom
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
Coleoptera Lycidae Murcybolus fossil Cretaceous Burmese amber

Abstract

A new lycid beetle, Murcybolus longiantennus gen. et sp. nov., is reported from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (ca. 99 Ma). Murcybolus is placed in the recently erected fossil tribe Burmolycini based on the fully metamorphosed female, 10-segmented antennae, and pronotal disc with deep rounded punctures but without carinae. Murcybolus differs from the other genus in Burmolycini, Burmolycus, by its antennal morphology and elytral venation.

 

References

  1. Bocak, L. & Bocakova, M. (2008) Phylogeny and classification of the family Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annales Zoologici, 58, 695–720.

    https://doi.org/10.3161/000345408X396639

    Bocak, L. & Bocakova, M. (2010) Lycidae Laporte, 1836. In: Leschen, R.A.B., Beutel, R.G., Lawrence, J.F. (Eds.), Handbook of Zoology, Arthropoda: Insecta, Coleoptera, beetles. Vol. 2. morphology and systematics (Elateroidea, Bostrichiformia, Cucujiformia partim). Walter de Gruyter, Berlin and New York, pp. 114–123.

    https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110911213.114

    Bocak, L., Kundrata, R., Fernández, C.A. & Vogler, A.P. (2016) The discovery of Iberobaeniidae (Coleoptera: Elateroidea): a new family of beetles from Spain, with immatures detected by environmental DNA sequencing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, 20152350.

    https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2015.2350

    Bocak, L., Li, Y. & Ellenberger, S. (2019) The discovery of Burmolycus compactus gen. et sp. nov. from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar provides the evidence for early diversification of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera, Lycidae). Cretaceous Research, 99, 149–155.

    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2019.02.018

    Bocakova, M. (2014) Lolodorfus, a new genus of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Dexorinae) from Cameroon. Zootaxa, 3811 (3), 374–380.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.3811.3.8

    Kazantsev, S.V. (2005) Morphology of Lycidae with some considerations on evolution of the Coleoptera. Elytron, 17, 49–226.

    Kazantsev, S.V. (2012) A review of Erotinae and Dictyopterinae (Coleoptera: Lycidae), with description of new taxa and a note on biogeography of the subfamilies. Russian Entomological Journal, 21, 395–414.

    Kazantsev, S.V. (2018) New and little known taxa of the endemic Afrotropical subfamily Mimolibnetinae (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Russian Entomological Journal, 27, 143–151.

    https://doi.org/10.15298/rusentj.27.2.04

    Kazantsev, S.V. (2019) Protolycus gedaniensis gen. et sp. nov., the first Baltic amber representative of Lycini (Coleoptera: Lycidae: Lycinae). Palaeoentomology, 2, 327–332.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.4.5

    Kusy, D., Motyka, M., Bocek, M., Vogler, A.P. & Bocak, L. (2018) Genome sequences identify three families of Coleoptera as morphologically derived click beetles (Elateridae). Scientific Reports, 8, 1–9.

    https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-35328-0

    Kusy, D., Motyka, M, Bocek, M, Masek, M. & Bocak, L. (2019) Phylogenomic analysis resolves the relationships among net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae) and reveals the parallel evolution of morphological traits. Systematic Entomology, 44, 911–925.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12363

    Kusy, D., He, J.-W., Bybee, S.M., Motyka, M., Bi, W.-X., Podsiadlowski, L., Li, X.-Y. & Bocak, L. (2021) Phylogenomic relationships of bioluminescent elateroids define the ‘lampyroid’ clade with clicking Sinopyrophoridae as its earliest member. Systematic Entomology, 46, 111–123.

    https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12451

    Masek, M., Motyka, M., Kusy, D., Bocek, M., Li, Y. & Bocak, L. (2018) Molecular phylogeny, diversity and zoogeography of net-winged beetles (Coleoptera: Lycidae). Insects, 9, 154.

    https://doi.org/10.3390/insects9040154

    McKenna, D.D., Shin, S., Ahrens, D., Balke, M., Beza-Beza, C., Clarke, D.J., Donath, A., Escalona, H.E., Friedrich, F., Letsch, H., Liu, S., Maddison, D., Mayer, C., Misof, B., Murin, P.J., Niehuis, O., Peters, R.S., Podsiadlowski, L., Pohl, H., Scully, E.D., Yan, E.V., Zhou, X., Ślipiński, A. & Beutel, R.G. (2019) The evolution and genomic basis of beetle diversity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, USA, 116, 24729–24737.

    https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1909655116

    Sidorchuk, E.A. & Vorontsov, D.D. (2018) Preparation of small-sized 3D amber samples: state of the technique. Palaeoentomology, 1, 80–90.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.1.1.10

    Tihelka, E., Huang, D. & Cai, C. (2019) A new genus and tribe of Cretaceous net-winged beetles from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Elateroidea: Lycidae). Palaeoentomology, 2, 262–270.

    https://doi.org/10.11646/palaeoentomology.2.3.11