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ABSTRACT
The beetle family Ptilodactylidae is recorded for the first time from Rovno amber, Ukraine. Ptilodactyla odnosum Telnov, Perkovsky, Kundrata and Bukejs sp. nov. and a male of P. eocenica Kundrata, Bukejs and Blank, 2021 are described and illustrated using X-ray micro-computed tomography. Our discoveries of two species in Rovno amber together with recently published findings in Baltic amber and Bembridge Marls suggest that ptilodactylids were rather diverse in Eocene Europe. Identification key to Ptilodactylidae described from European Eocene ambers is provided, and relationships of the Baltic and Rovno amber coleopterofaunas are briefly discussed.
Acknowledgements
The authors are sincerely grateful to Dr. Elżbieta Sontag (Museum of Amber Inclusions, University of Gdańsk, Poland) for the loan of the fossil specimen, to Prof. Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn (A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Moscow, Russia) for discussion, to Mr. Jonas Damzen (Vilnius, Lithuania) and Mr. Nikolai R. Khomich (Rovno, Ukraine) for general assistance to our amber research, and to Mr. Anatoly P. Vlaskin (SIZK) for cutting and polishing the amber piece.
RK received support from the SYNTHESYS+ project which is financed by European Community Research Infrastructure Action under the H2020 Integrating Activities Programme (project GB-TAF-8656 for stay in Natural History Museum, London, UK).
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Supplemental data for this article can be accessed online at https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2022.2136034
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