Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

Lyubarsky, Georgy Yu.; Perkovsky, Evgeny E.; Vasilenko, Dmitry V.

doi:10.3390/life13030636

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Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber

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Georgy Yu. Lyubarsky

¹,

Evgeny E. Perkovsky

^2,3,*

and

Dmitry V. Vasilenko

^4,5,*

¹

Zoological Museum, Moscow Lomonosov State University, Bol’shya Nikitskaya 2, Moscow 125009, Russia

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I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmielnitsky Str. 15, 01030 Kiev, Ukraine

³

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark

⁴

A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, Russia

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Paleontological Laboratory, Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets 162600, Russia

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Life 2023, 13(3), 636; https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030636

Submission received: 12 January 2023 / Revised: 21 February 2023 / Accepted: 21 February 2023 / Published: 24 February 2023

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Research on Palaeontology)

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Xenophagus simutniki sp. n. is described from a late Eocene Rovno amber specimen. The new species is similar to the fossil Xenophagus popovi Lyubarsky et Perkovsky, 2017 from the late Eocene Baltic amber (W Russia), differing in the medially notched anterior margin of the pronotum. The Rovno xenosceline fauna is the richest among both extant and extinct faunas. This fauna includes the extinct genera Xenophagus Lyubarsky & Perkovsky, 2017 and Xenohimatium Lyubarsky & Perkovsky, 2012, which are closest to the extant Mediterranean Xenoscelis Wollaston 1864 and the representative of the extant boreal genus Zavaljus Reitter, 1880. A key to extinct species of the subfamily Xenoscelinae is presented. The possible reasons of xenoscelines abundance in European amber forests are discussed.

Keywords: Xenophagus; taxonomy; late Eocene; Baltic amber; Bitterfeld amber; sympatry

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Lyubarsky, G.Y.; Perkovsky, E.E.; Vasilenko, D.V. Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber. Life 2023, 13, 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030636

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Lyubarsky GY, Perkovsky EE, Vasilenko DV. Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber. Life. 2023; 13(3):636. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030636

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Lyubarsky, Georgy Yu., Evgeny E. Perkovsky, and Dmitry V. Vasilenko. 2023. "Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber" Life 13, no. 3: 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030636

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Lyubarsky, G. Y., Perkovsky, E. E., & Vasilenko, D. V. (2023). Unexpected Diversity of Xenoscelinae in Priabonian European Amber: The Third Xenosceline Species from Rovno Amber. Life, 13(3), 636. https://doi.org/10.3390/life13030636

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