Baltic Amber, Humboldt Museum Kühl collection: Priabonian, Russian Federation
collected by Kuhl 1888

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Arachnida - Araneae - Trochanteriidae
Trochanteridromus scutatus Wunderlich 2004
Wunderlich 2004 1 specimen
MfN MB.A.610
Arachnida - Acariformes - Archaeorchestidae
Nothrus sulcatus n. sp. Karsch 1884
Karsch 1884
recombined as Plategeocranus sulcatus
Arachnida - Acariformes - Camisiidae
Nothrus kuehli n. sp. Karsch 1884
Karsch 1884
synonym of Camisia horrida
Arachnida - Acariformes - Nothridae
Nothrus punctulum n. sp. Karsch 1884
Karsch 1884
Insecta - Hemiptera - Aradidae
Aradus goellnerae n. sp. Heiss 2002
Heiss 2002 1 specimen
MfN MBI 1663 (1 measurement)
Aradus lativentris n. sp. Heiss 2002
Heiss 2002 1 specimen
MfN MBI 1886 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Orthoptera - Oecanthidae
Stenogryllodes brevipalpis n. gen., n. sp. Chopard 1936
Chopard 1936 1 specimen
Box 30
Insecta - Orthoptera - Gryllidae
? Gryllulus sp. Uvarov 1935
Chopard 1936 1 specimen
synonym of Acheta
Box 31
Insecta - Orthoptera - Trigonidiidae
Nemobius sp. Serville 1839
Chopard 1936 1 specimen
Box 31
Insecta - Orthoptera - Tettigoniidae
Eomortoniellus handlirschi Zeuner 1936
Zeuner 1936 1 specimen
GIBK 1
Insecta - Orthoptera - Tetrigidae
Acrydium bachofeni Zeuner 1937
Zeuner 1937 1 specimen
Coll Kuhl box 31
Insecta - Hymenoptera - Mymaridae
Mymar duisburgi n. sp. Stein 1877
Stein 1877 1 specimen
recombined as Eustochus duisburgi
Insecta - Trichoptera - Odontoceridae
Marilia ophthalmica Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u204, Box 28
Insecta - Trichoptera - Calamoceratidae
Ganonema regulare n. sp. Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u205, Box 26
Insecta - Trichoptera - Lepidostomatidae
Palaeocrunoecia crenata Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
recombined as Lepidostoma crenata
u209, Box 26
Insecta - Trichoptera - Hydropsychidae
Diplectrona minima n. sp. Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u202
Electrodiplectrona decipiens Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u210, Box 26
Insecta - Trichoptera - Philopotamidae
Dolophilus aequalis (Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
recombined as Wormaldia aequalis
Insecta - Trichoptera - Polycentropodidae
Plectrocnemia angulata Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u207, Box 26
Plectrocnemia lata (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 11 specimens
Plectrocnemia rostrata Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u208, Box 26
Plectrocnemia barbata (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 2 specimens
original and current combination Polycentropus barbatus
Holocentropus atratus (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 2 specimens
Holocentropus incertus (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 6 specimens
Holocentropus affinis (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
Holocentropus vetustus (Germar 1813)
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
Nyctiophylax varians Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 2 specimens
u211, u212
Insecta - Trichoptera - Psychomyiidae
Lype sericea (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
Ulmer 1912 5 specimens
Insecta - Trichoptera - Dipseudopsidae
Phylocentropus simplex Ulmer 1912
Ulmer 1912 1 specimen
u206, Box 26
Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae
Rhipidius primordialis n. sp. Stein 1877
Stein 1877 1 specimen
recombined as Ripidius primordialis
Insecta - Coleoptera - Cleridae
Pseudopallenis palantir n. sp. Kolibáč 1997
Kolibáč 1997 1 specimen
MfN MB.J.459 (1 measurement)
Visokorynetes priscus n. gen., n. sp. Winkler 1990
Winkler 1990 1 specimen
MfN MB.J.463 (1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Aphodius succini n. sp. Zang 1905
Zang 1905 1 specimen
recombined as Saprosites succini
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Helodes modesta n. sp. Klausnitzer 1976
Klausnitzer 1976 1 specimen
recombined as Elodes modesta
(1 measurement)
Insecta - Coleoptera - Carabidae
Arthropterus kuhlii n. sp. Stein 1877
Stein 1877 2 specimens
recombined as Succinarthropterus kuhlii
1 in collection, 1 presumably returned to Kuhl
Insecta - Psocodea - Elipsocidae
Elipsocus kuhli n. sp. Kolbe 1883
Kolbe 1883 1 specimen
synonym of Elipsocus abnormis
Insecta - Psocodea - Psocidae
Copostigma affinis (Pictet and Hagen 1856)
3 specimens
replaced by Psocidus multiplex
Psocus picteti Enderlein 1911
2 specimens
recombined as Psocidus picteti
(2 measurements)
Psocus trigonoscenea Enderlein 1911
1 specimen
recombined as Trichadenotecnum trigonosceneum
Insecta - Psocodea - Caeciliusidae
Caecilius proavus (Hagen 1856)
1 specimen
recombined as Valenzuela proavus
Insecta - Psocodea - Philotarsidae
Philotarsus antiquus n. sp. Kolbe 1883
Kolbe 1883 1 specimen
Insecta - Psocodea - Amphientomidae
Amphientomum paradoxum Pictet 1854
2 specimens
Insecta - Psocodea - Sphaeropsocidae
Palaeotroctes succinicus (Hagen 1882)
1 specimen
synonym of Sphaeropsocus kuenowii
Insecta - Diptera - Limoniidae
Helius minutus (Loew 1850)
Kania 2014 1 specimen
original and current combination Rhamphidia minuta
MfN MB.J.224
Helius formosus n. sp. Krzemiński 1993
Krzemiński 1993 1 specimen
MBJ. 225
Trichoneura (Trichoneura) vulgaris (Loew 1850)
Krzemiński 1990 1 specimen
MfN MB.I 226
Antohelia stanislawi n. gen., n. sp. Kania 2015
Kania 2015 1 specimen
MfN MB.I 227 (2 measurements)
Insecta - Diptera - Ceratopogonidae
Forcipomyia sp. Meigen 1818
Szadziewski 1988 2 specimens
MBI 139, 144
Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) pseudomicrohelea n. sp. Szadziewski 1988
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 136 (2 measurements)
Forcipomyia (Forcipomyia) uncula (Meunier 1904)
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 137
Ceratopogoninae indet. Newman 1834
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 138
Culicoides sp. Latreille 1809
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 143
Culicoides (Oecacta) dasyheleiformis Szadziewski 1988
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 145
Culicoides ceranowiczi Szadziewski 1988
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 133
Brachypogon (Isohelea) sp. (Kieffer 1917)
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 140
Alluaudomyia succinea Szadziewski 1988
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
MBI 143
Eohelea sinuosa (Meunier 1904)
Szadziewski 1988 3 specimens
MBI 131, 132, 148
Monohelea clunipes (Loew 1850)
Szadziewski 1988 1 specimen
recombined as Monogedania clunipes
MBI 149
Ceratopogon sp. Meigen 1803
Szadziewski 1988 6 specimens
MBI 134, 135, 141, 142, 146, 147
Insecta - Diptera - Culicidae
Culex erikae n. sp. Szadziewski and Szadziewska 1985
Szadziewski and Szadziewska 1985 1 specimen
MfN MBI 130 (1 measurement)
see common names

Geography
Country:Russian Federation State/province:Kaliningrad
Coordinates: 54.9° North, 19.9° East (view map)
Paleocoordinates:53.9° North, 15.2° East
Geographic resolution:local area
Time
Period:Paleogene Epoch:Eocene
Stage:Priabonian 10 m.y. bin:Cenozoic 3
Key time interval:Priabonian
Age range of interval:37.71000 - 33.90000 m.y. ago
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: According to Aleksandrova and Zaporozhets (2008), the higher parts of the Prussian Formation (including the Blaue Erde or Blue Earth) belong to the Charlesdowniea clathrata angulosa dinocyst Zone. Based on its index species, this zone is concurrent to Zone W13 established in the Parisian basin (Châteauneuf and Gruas-Cavagnetto 1978), where it is correlated with nannoplankton zones NP18–NP21 (Powell, 1992) of the Priabonian. In the Paleogene zonation of northwestern Europe, the first occurrence of Thalassiphora fenestrata is designated at the base of the dinocyst Subzone D12b (36.20 +/- 0.1 Ma), which is correlated with zones NP18 (terminal part)–NP20 of the Priabonian (Luterbacher et al., 2004).
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: amber
Includes fossils?Y
Environment:terrestrial indet.
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation:body,amber
Size of fossils:macrofossils,mesofossils,microfossils
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods:surface (float)
Reason for describing collection:taxonomic analysis
Museum repositories:MfN
Collectors:Kuhl Collection dates:1888
Collection method comments: Deposited in the Museum fur Naturkunde der Humboldt-Universitat in 1888
Metadata
Database number:123221
Authorizer:M. Clapham Enterer:M. Clapham, J. Karr
Modifier:M. Clapham Research group:paleoentomology
Created:2012-01-14 16:41:23 Last modified:2015-03-25 15:05:35
Access level:the public Released:2012-01-14 16:41:23
Creative Commons license:CC BY
Reference information

Primary reference:
40189. G. Enderlein. 1911. Die fossilen copeognathan und ihre phylogenie. Palaeontographica 58:279-360 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]

Secondary references:

48480 L. Chopard. 1936. Orthoptères fossiles et subfossiles de l'ambre et du copal. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 105:375-386 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39462 E. Heiss. 2002. Revision of the family Aradidae in Baltic Amber IV. Two new Aradus from the collection of the Institut für Paläontologie, Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin (Heteroptera, Aradidae). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 49:221-225 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51748 I. Kania. 2014. Subfamily Limoniinae Speiser, 1909 (Diptera, Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene): the genus Helius Lepeletier & Serville, 1828. Zootaxa 3814:333-352 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54895 I. Kania. 2015. The taxonomy of selected genera of the subfamily Limoniinae (Diptera: Limoniidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene), with notes on their phylogeny. Annales Zoologici 65:71-100 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
53480 F. Karsch. 1884. Neue Milben in Bernstein. Berliner Entomologische Zeitschrift 28:175-176 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
51320 B. Klausnitzer. 1976. Neue Arten der Gattung Helodes Latreille aus Bernstein (Coleoptera, Helodidae). Reichenbachia 16:53-61 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
49015 H. J. Kolbe. 1883. Neue Beiträge zur Kenntniss der Psociden der Bernstein -Fauna. Entomologische Zeitung 44:186-191 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
54929 J. Kolibáč. 1997. Classification of the subfamilies of Cleridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea). Acta Musei Moraviae, Scientiae Naturales 81:307-361 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47160 W. Krzemiński. 1993. Fossil Tipulomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene). Revision of the genus Helius Lepeletier et Serville (Limoniidae). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 35(3):597-601 [M. Clapham/J. Karr]
51593 W. Krzemiński. 1990. Fossil Tipulomorpha (Diptera, Nematocera) from Baltic amber (Upper Eocene). Introductory part. Subfamily Lechriinae (Limoniidae). Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 60:177-194 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45709 J. P. E. Stein. 1877. Drei merkwürdige Bernstein-Insekten. Mittheilungen des Münchener Entomologischen Vereins 1:28-30 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
50096 R. Szadziewski. 1988. Biting midges (Diptera, Ceratopogonidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 57:3-283 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39461 R. Szadziewski and M. M. Szadziewska. 1985. Culex erikae sp. n. (Diptera, Culicidae) from the Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 55:513-518 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
39959 G. Ulmer. 1912. Die Trichopteren des baltischen Bernsteins. Beiträge zur Naturkunde Preussens 10:1-380 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
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48849 J. R. Winkler. 1990. Two new genera of fossil Korynetinae from Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Cleridae). Acta Universitatis Carolinae, Biologica 34:371-381 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
47854 J. Wunderlich. 2004. Fossil spiders of the family Trochanteriidae (Araneae) in Baltic, Dominican and Mexican amber, with a revision of the genus Sosybius Koch and Berendt 1854. In J. Wunderlich (ed.), Beiträge zur Araneologie 3:1699-1732 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
45761 R. Zang. 1905. Über Coleoptera Lamellicornia aus dem baltischen Bernstein. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1905:197-205 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]
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5179ETE 891F. E. Zeuner. 1937. Descriptions of new genera and species of fossil Saltatoria (Orthoptera). Proceedings of the Entomological Society of London, Series B, Taxonomy 6(8):154-159 [C. Labandeira/C. Labandeira/M. Clapham]
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