First member of ‘higher endomychidae’ (coleoptera: coccinelloidea) from the mid-cretaceous amber of myanmar and new insights into the time of origin of the handsome fungus beetles “2279

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Some current subfamilies, e_g, Endomychinae in the new sense, which now includes the genus Endomychus plus all genera of the former subfamily Stenotarsinae, are an anatomically heterogeneous group with no potential supporting synapomorphies. This discovery would suggest older than previously hypothesized, presumably Jurassic origin of Endomychidae, agreeing with results of, e_g, Cai et_al, indicating that Coccinelloidea diverged in the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic. The synapomorphies for some subfamilies, e_g, those belonging to the endomychine complex (‘Higher Endomychidae`), like Epipocinae, Cyclotominae, and former Stenotarsinae are difficult or impossible to observe in fossil specimens, as . . .

 



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