A PREVIOUSLY MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF DASYTINE SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES FROM CRETACEOUS CHARENTESE AMBER (COLEOPTERA, MELYRIDAE)

doi:10.1002/spp2.1360

	A PREVIOUSLY MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF DASYTINE SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES FROM CRETACEOUS CHARENTESE AMBER (COLEOPTERA, MELYRIDAE)
	Tihelka, Erik 1; Huang, Diying 2,3; Perrichot, Vincent 4; Cai, Chenyang 1,2,3
刊名	PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY
	2021-04-11
页码	12
关键词	Cleroidea Charentese amber Fouras Peninsula Cretaceous Cenomanian phoretic mites
ISSN号	2056-2799
DOI	10.1002/spp2.1360
通讯作者	Perrichot, Vincent(vincent.perrichot@univ-rennes1.fr) ; Cai, Chenyang(cycai@nigpas.ac.cn)
英文摘要	The soft-winged flower beetles are a diverse cosmopolitan family of cleroid beetles with an unresolved higher classification, the adults of which feed on nectar and pollen. The fossil record of Melyridae is sparse, with only two described fossils known from the Mesozoic. Here we describe the first representative of the family from the Mesozoic of Europe, from early Cenomanian Charentese (French) amber. Due to the opaque nature of French amber, X-ray microtomography was used to document fine morphological details of the fossil. Protodasytes cretaceus gen. et sp. nov. possesses a unique combination of characters within the subfamily Dasytinae, which is shared by the tribes Chaetomalachiini, Dasytini, and Listrini, namely the presence of a small antennal club, tarsomere 4 slightly shorter than 3 but not distinctly narrower, symmetrical claws, and a distinct pronotal and elytral fringe. This suggests that Dasytinae had begun to diversify by the Late Cretaceous, possibly in concert with the radiation of angiosperms. The fossil record of soft-winged flower beetles is critically reviewed, and a checklist of extinct species is provided. The fragmentary Cenozoic fossils Troglops punctatissima and Malachius vertummni are removed from the family Melyridae, and the record of Attalus lusitanicus from Eocene-Oligocene Bembridge Marls is regarded as unlikely. The potential role of Protodasytes gen. nov. and Cretaceous melyrids as pollinators of early angiosperms is discussed.
资助项目	French National Research Agency[BLAN07-1-184190] ; CNRS-INSU grant Interrvie (project NOVAMBRE 2) ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB26000000] ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences[XDB18000000] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41672011] ; National Natural Science Foundation of China[41688103] ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research[2019QZKK0706]
WOS关键词	INSECT POLLINATION ; TROGOSSITIDAE ; BIODIVERSITY ; CLEROIDEA ; ORIGINS ; FRANCE ; GEN.
WOS研究方向	Paleontology
语种	英语
出版者	WILEY
WOS记录号	WOS:000642297100001
资助机构	French National Research Agency ; CNRS-INSU grant Interrvie (project NOVAMBRE 2) ; Strategic Priority Research Program of the Chinese Academy of Sciences ; National Natural Science Foundation of China ; Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.nigpas.ac.cn/handle/332004/38108]
专题	中国科学院南京地质古生物研究所
通讯作者	Perrichot, Vincent; Cai, Chenyang
作者单位	1.Univ Bristol, Sch Earth Sci, Life Sci Bldg,Tyndall Ave, Bristol BS8, Avon, England 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Nanjing Inst Geol & Palaeontol, State Key Lab Palaeobiol & Stratig, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 3.Chinese Acad Sci, Ctr Excellence Life & Paleoenvironm, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China 4.Univ Rennes, Geosci Rennes, CNRS, UMR 6118, F-35000 Rennes, France
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Tihelka, Erik,Huang, Diying,Perrichot, Vincent,et al. A PREVIOUSLY MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF DASYTINE SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES FROM CRETACEOUS CHARENTESE AMBER (COLEOPTERA, MELYRIDAE)[J]. PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY,2021:12.
APA	Tihelka, Erik,Huang, Diying,Perrichot, Vincent,&Cai, Chenyang.(2021).A PREVIOUSLY MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF DASYTINE SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES FROM CRETACEOUS CHARENTESE AMBER (COLEOPTERA, MELYRIDAE).PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY,12.
MLA	Tihelka, Erik,et al."A PREVIOUSLY MISSING LINK IN THE EVOLUTION OF DASYTINE SOFT-WINGED FLOWER BEETLES FROM CRETACEOUS CHARENTESE AMBER (COLEOPTERA, MELYRIDAE)".PAPERS IN PALAEONTOLOGY (2021):12.