The first wounded-tree beetle (Coleoptera: Nosodendridae) from Cretaceous Burmese amber

摘要

The first representative of the family Nosodendridae, Nosodendron cretaceum sp. nov., is described and figured from the Myanmar amber (ca. 98.79 +/- 0.62 Ma). It differs from all known species of Nosodendron in having relatively elongate-oval body, the antennal scape and pedicel elongate with antennomere 3 subequal to or only slightly longer than pedicel. This is the first Mesozoic and the earliest record of the Nosodendridae. The Eocene Nosotetocus Scudder, 1892 (TS: Nosotetocus marcovi Scudder, 1892), Nosotetocus debilis Scudder, 1900, Nosotetocus vespertinus Scudder, 1900 and Nosodendron tritavum Scudder, 1900 not belong to Nosodendridae and are here provisionally transferred to Byrrhidae. (C) 2018 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.