Atomaria (Anchicera) perkovskyi Lyubarsky and Bukejs 2022 (silken fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Full reference: G. Y. Lyubarsky and A. Bukejs. 2022. Two new fossil species of the genus Atomaria Stephens (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) from Eocene European amber with a key to species described from fossil resins. Zootaxa 5188:283-289

Belongs to Atomaria (Anchicera) according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and A. Bukejs 2022

Sister taxa: Atomaria (Anchicera) alekseevi, Atomaria (Anchicera) archibaldi, Atomaria (Anchicera) bukejsi, Atomaria (Anchicera) gedanicola, Atomaria (Anchicera) groehni, Atomaria (Anchicera) propinqua, Atomaria (Anchicera) saxonica

Type specimen: MAIG 6832, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno amber (MAIG collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rovno amber (MAIG collection)

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