An Aquatic Water Scavenger Beetle in Early Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)

Martin Fikáček; Michael S. Engel

doi:10.3161/000345411X622462

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Martin Fikáček,^1,2 Michael S. Engel^3,4

¹Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ-148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic
²Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ-128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic; e-mail. mfikacek@gmail.com
³Division of Entomology (Paleoentomology), Natural History Museum, and Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, 1501 Crestline Drive - Suite 140, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 66049-2811, USA; e-mail: msengel@ku.edu
⁴Division of Invertebrate Zoology (Entomology), American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA

Abstract

We describe a fossil hydrophilid beetle Anacaena paleodominica sp. nov. from the Early Miocene amber of the Dominican Republic, which is the only definitive amber inclusion of the family Hydrophilidae documented. The species belongs to the Recent Anacaena suturalis species group known from the Nearctic, Neotropical, and Australian regions. The fossil demonstrates that representatives of the species group may already have been widespread and common by the Early Miocene, and indicates a possible Miocene/post-Miocene extinction of the aquatic insect fauna on the island of Hispaniola.

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Martin Fikáček and Michael S. Engel "An Aquatic Water Scavenger Beetle in Early Miocene Amber from the Dominican Republic (Coleoptera: Hydrophilidae)," Annales Zoologici 61(4), 621-628, (1 December 2011). https://doi.org/10.3161/000345411X622462

Received: 25 May 2011; Accepted: 1 August 2011; Published: 1 December 2011

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