Articles | Volume 24, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-93-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-24-93-2021
Research article
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07 Apr 2021
Research article |  | 07 Apr 2021

A new Eocene Bacanius species (Histeridae: Dendrophilinae) from Baltic amber

Vitalii I. Alekseev and Andris Bukejs

Cited articles

Alekseev, V. I.: Description of two clown beetles (Coleoptera: Staphyliniformia: Hydrophiloidea: Histeridae) from Baltic amber (Cenozoic, Paleogene, Eocene), Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 16, 27–35, 2016. 
Bukejs, A.: Bacanius gorskii Alekseev et Bukejs sp. nov., holotype, 8619 [CAG], X-ray micro-CT volume rendering of the habitus, TIB, https://doi.org/10.5446/49327, 2021a. 
Bukejs, A.: Bacanius gorskii Alekseev et Bukejs sp. nov., holotype, 8619 [CAG], X-ray micro-CT volume rendering of the antenna, TIB, https://doi.org/10.5446/49328, 2021b. 
Bukejs, A., Alekseev, V. I., and Pollock, D. A.: Waidelotinae, a new subfamily of Pyrochroidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula and the interpretation of Sambian amber stratigraphy, age and location, Zootaxa, 4664, 261–273, https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4664.2.8, 2019. 
Caterino, M. S. and Maddison, D. R.: An early and mysterious histerid inquiline from Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Histeridae), ZooKeys, 733, 119–129, https://doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.733.23126, 2018. 
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Short summary
Clown beetles (Histeridae) are insufficiently studied in fossil resins. The aim of the present research is to describe a new species of Bacaniini from Eocene Baltic amber. The specimen is studied using X-ray micro-computed tomography, imaged and compared with fossil and extant related beetles. A mixed sporophagous–predaceous diet in rotten wood of fallen and standing trees was assumed to be the ecological niche for the fossil species.
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