A new genus of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous: the first fossil rove beetles from the Southern Hemisphere
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A new genus of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous : the first fossil rove beetles from the Southern Hemisphere. / Schomann, Andrea Maria; Solodovnikov, Alexey.
In: Systematic Entomology, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2012, p. 379-386.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - A new genus of Staphylinidae (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous
T2 - the first fossil rove beetles from the Southern Hemisphere
AU - Schomann, Andrea Maria
AU - Solodovnikov, Alexey
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - The fossil genus of rove beetles Apticaxgen.n. with two new species, A. volanssp.n. and A. solidussp.n., is described from the Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation in north-eastern Brazil (Aptian–Albian, dated as 125–99.6 Ma old). Both species belong to the clade Staphylininae + Paederinae in the staphylinine group of subfamilies and are the first fossil true Staphylinidae to be described from the entire Southern Hemisphere. Although they resemble Paederinae, the low number of satisfactorily preserved characters do not allow definite placement of either A. volans or A. solidus in any of the subfamilies of Staphylinidae.
AB - The fossil genus of rove beetles Apticaxgen.n. with two new species, A. volanssp.n. and A. solidussp.n., is described from the Nova Olinda Member of the Crato Formation in north-eastern Brazil (Aptian–Albian, dated as 125–99.6 Ma old). Both species belong to the clade Staphylininae + Paederinae in the staphylinine group of subfamilies and are the first fossil true Staphylinidae to be described from the entire Southern Hemisphere. Although they resemble Paederinae, the low number of satisfactorily preserved characters do not allow definite placement of either A. volans or A. solidus in any of the subfamilies of Staphylinidae.
U2 - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00615.x
DO - 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00615.x
M3 - Journal article
VL - 37
SP - 379
EP - 386
JO - Systematic Entomology
JF - Systematic Entomology
SN - 0307-6970
IS - 2
ER -
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