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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-01398-w
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- Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research project [2019QZKK0706]
- Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB26000000, XDB18000000]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [41688103]
- Palacky University [IGA_PrF_2021_019]
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This study reports a new elateroid species, Anoeuma lawrencei, found in mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Through detailed morphological comparisons, it was revealed that Anoeuma has unique characteristics that do not fit neatly into existing soft-bodied elateroid groups, indicating past diversity and morphological disparity within this insect family.
We here report a new elateroid, Anoeuma lawrencei Li, Kundrata and Cai gen. et sp. nov., from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Though superficially similar to some soft-bodied archostematans, Anoeuma could be firmly placed in the polyphagan superfamily Elateroidea based on the hind wing venation. Detailed morphological comparisons between extant elateroids and the Cretaceous fossils suggest that the unique character combination does not fit with confidence into any existing soft-bodied elateroid group, although some characters indicate possible relationships between Anoeuma and Omalisinae. Our discovery of this new lineage further demonstrates the past diversity and morphological disparity of soft-bodied elateroids.
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