A new species of the genus Granulobium Li et al., 2023 (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Cretaceous Kachin amber
A new species, Granulobium perkovskyi sp. nov., is described and illustrated from late Cretaceous Kachin amber. The new species differs from Granulobium whitei Li et al., 2023 in three key characteristics: the punctate pronotum, the larger eyes, the densely punctate elytra, and the larger body size. Benemerita MolinoOlmedo, 2024, syn. nov. is synonymous with Amberophytum Yu et al., 2019 and is placed from the family Ptinidae into the family Cerophytidae. This is the second record of the genus Granulobium Li et al., 2023 from Cenomanian Burmese amber.
Authors
- Andrei A. Legalov (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7347-8169)
- Vladislav A. Legalov
Institutions
- Altai State University (RU)
- National Research Tomsk State University (RU)
- Siberian State University of Telecommunications and Information Science (RU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Ecologica Montenegrina
- Published
- 2025-02-18
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.3
- Primary Topic
- Fossil Insects in Amber
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00