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Umenocoleidae (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from Turonian sediments of Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan and Cenomanian northern Myanmar amber

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Umenocoleidae is an enigmatic, extinct Mesozoic beetle-like roach family with cosmopolitan distribution erroneously attributed to various insect orders by past authors. Here unusual and well-preserved Archaeospinapteryx tartarensis gen. et sp. n., Trapezionotum vrsanskyi gen. et sp. n., Poikiloprosopon celiae gen. et sp. n., Vzrkadlenie karneri sp. n., and V. saintgermaini sp. n. are described from Cenomanian Burmese amber of the Hukawng Valley. Furthermore, Nigropterix angustata gen. et sp. n. and Umenotypus maculatus gen. et sp. n. are reported from Turonian sediments of Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan. ?Classopolis pollen grains directly attached on the frons of the head of one specimen indiciate pollen transfer, as reported in other representatives of Umenocoleoidea. The herein studied material increases our knowledge of the diversity of this bizarre lineage and extends its temporal and paleogeographic distribution.

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Acknowledgements

We thank anonymous reviewers; Liz Sisk (Washington D.C.) for providing scientific illustrations of the northern Myanmar amber specimens; Martin Maľa (FNS UNIBA Bratislava) for technical help and Peter Vršanský (SAV Bratislava) for advice. We also thank PIN (Moscow) for providing sedimentary samples. This work was supported by UNESCO-AMBA/ MVTS supporting grant of Presidium of the Slovak Academy of Sciences; the Slovak Scientific Grant Agency VEGA 2/0113/22. We thank Michel Saint-Germain, head of collections and research and Maxim Larrivé, director of the Montreal Insectarium for their support of our research.

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  1. Institute of Zoology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská Cesta 9, 845 06, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Hemen Sendi

  2. Faculty of Natural Sciences, Ilkovičova 6, Bratislava, 84104, Slovakia

    Hemen Sendi

  3. Montreal Insectarium, 4101 Rue Sherbrooke Est, Montréal, Québec, H1X 2B2, Canada

    Stéphane Le Tirant & Royce Cumming

  4. Institute of Inorganic Chemistry, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Dúbravská Cesta 9, Bratislava, 84 536, Slovakia

    Helena Palková

  5. International Laser Centre, Ilkovicova 3, 841 04, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Dušan Chorvát

  6. Earth Science Institute, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Ďumbierska 1, 974 01, Banská Bystrica, Slovakia

    Juraj Šurka

  7. Richard Gilder Graduate School, American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, 10024, USA

    Royce Cumming

  8. Biology, Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, USA

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H.S. performed the main systematic research; R.C. and S.T. provided samples, photodocumentation, measurements and corrected the text; J.S. retrieved microCT images; H.P. provided IR spectroscopy for the northern Myanmar amber specimens with explanations of the results; and D.C. helped with a wavelength absorption spectrum of one specimen.

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Sendi, H., Le Tirant, S., Palková, H. et al. Umenocoleidae (Insecta: Dictyoptera) from Turonian sediments of Kzyl-Zhar, Kazakhstan and Cenomanian northern Myanmar amber. Biologia 78, 1585–1609 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11756-023-01356-z

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