Rovno Amber, Lisove locality (SIZK Les collection) (Eocene of Ukraine)

Where: Ukraine (51.3° N, 25.7° E: paleocoordinates 50.5° N, 21.1° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• local area-level geographic resolution

When: Priabonian (38.0 - 33.9 Ma)

• Likely roughly contemporaneous with late Eocene Baltic amber

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; amber

Size class: mesofossils

Preservation: amber

Collection methods: surface (float)

• Repository: Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Kiev)

Primary reference: D. Telnov, E. E. Perkovsky, D. V. Vasilenko and S. Yamamoto. 2021. The first fossil Coleoptera record from the Volyn Region, Ukraine, with description of a new Glesoconomorphus (Coleoptera, Mycteridae) in syninclusion with Winterschmidtiidae (Acari) and a key to species. ZooKeys 1068:189-201 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: taxonomic analysis

PaleoDB collection 223355: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 09.11.2021

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

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Insecta
 Coleoptera - Curculionidae
Demimaea zherichini n. sp.1, Demimaea gratshevi n. sp.1
Demimaea zherichini n. sp.1 Legalov et al. 2022 snout beetle
SIZK Les-3
Demimaea gratshevi n. sp.1 Legalov et al. 2022 snout beetle
SIZK Kes-2
 Coleoptera - Mycteridae
Glesoconomorphus ekaterinae n. sp.
Glesoconomorphus ekaterinae n. sp. Telnov et al. 2021 palm and flower beetle
SIZK Les-10
 Hymenoptera - Dryinidae
Bocchus rex n. sp.2
Bocchus rex n. sp.2 Olmi et al. 2022 wasp
SIZK Les-1
1Legalov et al. 2022; 2Olmi et al. 2022