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ZOOKEYS
Volume -, Issue 600, Pages 75-87Publisher
PENSOFT PUBL
DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.600.8913
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Burmite; Cretaceous; fossil; Myanmar; new species; Palaeoburmesebuthidae; scorpion
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A preliminary study on fossil scorpions found in amber, from the Lower Cretaceous through the Palaeocene and up to the Miocene is proposed. Scorpions remain rare among the arthropods found trapped in amber. Only 24 specimens are known from Cretaceous amber, representing eight families and subfamilies, ten genera and 21 species; in parallel, 10 specimens have been recorded from Baltic amber representing seven genera and ten species. A few more recent fossils from Dominican and Mexican amber have also been described. The present study of a new scorpion specimen from the Cretaceous amber of Myanmar (Burmite) resulted in the description of one new species, Betaburmesebuthus bellus sp.n. - belonging to the subfamily Palaeoburmesebuthinae Lourenco, 2015. The new description brings further elements to the clarification of the status of this subfamily, which is now raised to family level. Once again, this new Burmite element attests to the considerable degree of diversity in the Burmese amber-producing forests.
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