Stenorhamphus mixtus Smith & Hwang & Weirauch 2019, new combination
Description
Stenorhamphus mixtus (Putshkov & Popov, 1995), new combination
Collarhamphus mixtus Putshkov & Popov, 1995.
Holotype. Male, from Baltic amber, Coll. Geological- Paleontological Institute and Museum, University of Hamburg; Typ.Kat.Nr.3602. Locality used in Fig. 8 based on approximation of Baltic amber collection sites.
Discussion. Stenorhamphus mixtus was described as a fossil in the genus Collarhamphus due to apparently sharing similarities with all three extant Collartidini genera. As the three genera of Collartidini share many similarities, distinguishing between them can be extremely difficult. However, our morphological analyses placed Collarhamphus within the Mangabea + Stenorhamphus clade. Though not within Emesinae, previously described coleopteran Baltic amber fossils have been placed within extant genera (Alekseev, 2013). We feel confident in synonymising Collarhamphus with Stenorhamphus. This further emphasises the age of this group to be between 36 to 54 million years old (Wolfe et al., 2009) and that little morphological change appears to have occurred during this period.
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Additional details
Identifiers
Biodiversity
- Family
- Reduviidae
- Genus
- Stenorhamphus
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Order
- Hemiptera
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Scientific name authorship
- Smith & Hwang & Weirauch
- Species
- mixtus
- Taxonomic status
- comb. nov.
- Taxon rank
- species
- Type status
- holotype
- Taxonomic concept label
- Stenorhamphus mixtus (Putshkov, 1995) sec. Smith, Hwang & Weirauch, 2019
References
- Putshkov PV & Popov YA (1995) Collarhamphus mixtus n. gen. new species - The first Collartidina (Heteroptera: Reduviidae, Emesinae) from the Baltic Amber. Mitteilungen aus dem Geologisch-Palaontologischen Institut der Universitat Hamburg, 78: 179 - 187.
- Alekseev V (2013) The beetles (Insecta: Coleoptera) of Baltic amber: the checklist of described species and preliminary analysis of biodiversity. Zoology and Ecology, 23: 1, 5 - 12. doi: 10.1080 / 21658005.2013.769717.
- Wolfe A, Tappert R, Muehlenbachs K, Boudreau M, McKellar R, Basinger J & Garrett A (2009) A new proposal concerning the botanical origin of Baltic amber. Proceedings of the Royal Society, 276: 3403 - 3412.