New records of the subgenus Atomaria (Anchicera) Thomson, 1863 from European amber with description of the new species

ABSTRACT

One new extinct species of the genus Atomaria Stephens, 1829 is described and illustrated: A. (Anchicera) telnovi sp. nov. from Rovno amber. It is the sixth species of the subgenus Anchicera in Eocene amber; two-thirds of all species and two-thirds of all reported Eocene amber silken fungus beetle specimens belong to this subgenus. The reasons for the relative abundance of Anchicera in the Eocene fossil resins are discussed. A key to extinct Eocene species of Atomaria is provided.

KEYWORDS:

• Paleontology
• Cenozoic
• Paleogene
• Rovno amber
• Atomariinae
• new species

Acknowledgments

The authors are sincerely grateful to Prof. Alexandr P. Rasnitsyn (A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Moscow, Russia) for fruitful discussion, to Dr Dmitry D. Vorontsov (Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Moscow, Russia) for cutting and polishing the pieces, making photographs and determining the mites and to Dr Joshua M. Jenkins Shaw (Natural History Museum of Denmark, Copenhagen, Denmark) for editing. The study of GYuL was supported by the state program “Taxonomic and chorological analysis of the animal world, as a ground for study and conservation of the biological diversity” (121032300105-0) of the Lomonosov Moscow State University. EEP. was supported by Scholars at Risk Ukraine (SARU) fellowship at the University of Copenhagen. We thank two anonymous reviewer for their helpful comments and efforts that improved our manuscript.

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Funding

ЕEP was supported by the Scholars at Risk Ukraine (SARU) fellowship at the University of Copenhagen. The study of GYuL was supported by the “Taxonomic and chorological analysis of the animal world, as a ground for study and conservation of the biological diversity” program of the Lomonosov Moscow State University [121032300105-0].