2018 in paleoentomology is a list of new fossilinsecttaxa that were described during the year 2018, as well as other significant discoveries and events related to paleoentomology that were scheduled to occur during the year.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is A. brevicornis; genus also includes A. lingziae, A. elongatus and A. astriatus.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is B. cyclops; genus also includes B. tanaops, B. zhenuai and B. glabratus.
Originally described as a member of the family Belidae,[14] but subsequently transferred to the weevil family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.[1] The type species is B. jarzembowskii Legalov (2018); genus also includes B. longus Clarke & Oberprieler in Clarke et al. (2018).[1]
A weevil, originally assigned to the subfamily Erirhininae and the tribe Arthrostenini; subsequently transferred to the weevil family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae.[1] Genus includes new species B. georgei Legalov (2018) and B. setosus Clarke & Oberprieler in Clarke et al. (2018).[1]
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is C. batiatus; genus also includes C. terebrans and C. ursinus.
A member of Cucujoidea belonging to the family Cyclaxyridae. Originally described as a species of Cyclaxyra; Gimmel et al. (2019) made it the type species of a separate genus Electroxyra.[27]
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is E. conicops. The generic name is preoccupied by Elwoodius Colonnelli (2014); Clarke & Oberprieler (2019) coined a replacement name Zimmiorhinus.[33]
Originally described as a member of the family Kateretidae; subsequently argued to be a sap beetle belonging to the subfamily Apophisandrinae[39] or a member of the separate family Apophisandridae.[40] Genus includes new species F. burmanicum.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is M. caviventris; genus also includes M. robustus, M. dentifer and M. diversiunguis.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is N. chenyangi; genus also includes N. albomaculatus.
Originally described as an ambrosia beetle; subsequently considered to be unlikely to belong to Curculionoidea by Clarke et al. (2018).[1] Genus includes new species P. femoralis.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is P. deplanatus; genus also includes P. crenulatus.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Mesophyletinae. The type species is P. oxycorynoides; genus also includes P. curculionoides and P. cylindricus.
A weevil belonging to the family Mesophyletidae and the subfamily Aepyceratinae. The type species is P. beloides. The generic name is preoccupied by Platychirus Agassiz (1846); Clarke & Oberprieler (2019) coined a replacement name Burmophyletis.[33]
A member of the family Limnichidae. Originally described as a species of Platypelochares, but subsequently made the type species of the separate genus Hernandochares.[69]
A beetle of uncertain phylogenetic placement; originally described as a whirligig beetle, but subsequently argued to be a member of the family Triaplidae instead.[87] The type species is T. planus; genus might also include "Triaplus" sibiricus Volkov (2013),[87] though this species was also argued to be a member of the genus Tomiaplus instead.[88]
A member of the family Endomychidae. Genus was originally named Laima Alekseev & Tomaszewska (2018);[41] however, this generic name turned out to be preoccupied by Laima Gravitis (1981). The type species is Z. andreei (Alekseev & Tomaszewska, 2018).
A cockroach belonging to the family Raphidiomimidae. Genus includes new species F. gracilis and F. qiandaohua, as well as "Rhipidoblattina" karatavica Vishniakova (1968).
A species of Sylvicola. The name is preoccupied by Sylvicola punctatus (Fabricius, 1787); Hancock & Kania (2019) coined a replacement name Sylvicola harrisi.[131]
A member of Apocrita belonging to the superfamily Stephanoidea. The type species is M. lisu; genus also includes new species M. kachin, M. lahu[181] and M. jeannineae Li et al. (2018).[182]
A member of the family Orthophlebiidae. Genus includes "Orthophlebia" riccardii Petrulevičius & Ren (2012), "Orthophlebia" grandis Martynov (1927) and "Mesopanorpa" palmaris Martynova (1948).
A member of the family Mantispidae. Genus includes new species L. benmaddoxi. The original generic name, Longicollum, turned out to be preoccupied by Longicollum Yamaguti (1935), necessitating creation of a replacement name.
A member of Psychopsoidea, possibly belonging to the family Kalligrammatidae.[201] Genus includes new species O. penniformis Chang et al. (2018) and O. grandis Liu et al. (2018), as well as "Burmopsychops" groehni Makarkin (2017).[201]
A member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Perlidae. Genus includes new species L. acus Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. arcus Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. flata Chen, Wang & Du (2018), L. difformitatem Chen (2018),[250]L. dewalti Chen (2018), L. borisi Chen (2018),[251]L. charliewattsi Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. brianjonesi Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. micktaylori Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018), L. billwymani Sroka, Staniczek & Staniczek (2018)[247] and L. crassus Chen (2018).[252]
A member of Plecoptera belonging to the family Notonemouridae. The type species is P. zwicki; genus also includes "Perlariopsis" fidelis Sinitshenkova (1987).
A member of the family Philopotamidae. The type species is K. piotri. The generic name is preoccupied by Kempia Mathews (1912), Kempia Kieffer (1913) and Kempia Preston (1913).
A member of Cnemidolestida/Cnemidolestodea (an extinct group of insects of uncertain phylogenetic placement, might be related to plecopterans or orthopterans) belonging to the family Sylvabestiidae. Genus includes new species A. kichineis.
A collective group name for Lepidoptera fossils that cannot be placed with certainty in any known family. Includes Tortrix? florissantana Cockerell (1907), Tortrix? destructus Cockerell (1916) and "Tortricites" sadilenkoi Kozlov (1988).
A member of Palaeodictyoptera belonging to the family Breyeriidae. Genus includes new species V. sassoonae, as well as "Breyeria" harlemensis Brauckmann & Gröning (1996).
Taphonomic study aiming to determine whether decay and preservation potential of insects in amber, and therefore bias in the amber fossil record, is affected by resin-type, dehydration prior to entombment, and the composition of the gut microbiota, is published by McCoy et al. (2018).[293]
A study on the evolution of insects as indicated by the morphological diversity of their mouthparts is published by Nel, Bertrand & Nel (2018).[294]
Reevaluation of the JurassicichnospeciesLunulipes obscurus is published by Getty & Loeb (2018), who interpret these trackways as most likely to be produced by a water boatman or an unknown insect that employed a similar method of swimming.[296]
An ellipsoidal chamber composed of a thin organic layer, interpreted as a likely insect cocoon or pupation chamber, is described from the Lower CretaceousJinju Formation (South Korea) by Lee (2018).[297]
A study on the body size of soil-dwelling insects across the Cretaceous-Paleogene boundary, inferred from burrows from the Big Bend National Park (Texas, United States) which were likely produced by beetle larvae or cicada nymphs, is published by Wiest et al. (2018).[298]
A study on the impact of sampling standardization, or lack thereof, on comparisons of insect herbivory from two Lower Permian localities in Texas is published by Schachat, Labandeira & Maccracken (2018).[299]
A study on the diversity, frequency and representation of insect damage of fossil plant specimens from the PermianLa Golondrina Formation (Argentina) is published by Cariglino (2018).[300]
Trace fossil produced by a wingless jumping insect belonging to the order Monura is described from the lower Permian of Southern Alps (Italy) by Bernardi, Marchetti & Gobbi (2018).[305]
Redescription of the meganeurid species Meganeurites gracilipes is published by Nel et al. (2018), who interpret this species as unlikely to have lived in densely forested environments, and more likely to be an open-space, ecotone or riparian forest predator, hunting in a way similar to extant hawkers.[307]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of an Early Cretaceous plecopteran"Rasnitsyrina" culonga Sinitshenkova (2011)[308] is published by Cui, Toussaint & Béthoux (2018).[309]
A female specimen of the plecopteran genus Podmosta, distinguished from other Podmosta females by the "rabbit-shaped" sclerite on sternum 8, is described from the LithuanianBaltic amber by Chen (2018).[310]
A study on the morphology of ovipositors of different fossil dictyopterans, on their possible reproductive strategies and on the evolution of the reproductive strategies within Dictyoptera is published by Hörnig et al. (2018).[312]
A revision of the hymenopteran fauna from the collection of the Cretaceous Burmese amber at the Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology (Chinese Academy of Sciences) is published by Zhang et al. (2018).[314]
A study on the shape of the wing and the venational structures of the Eocene giant ants, including members of the genus Titanomyrma, evaluating the possibilities of determining species and sex of individual specimens with the use of geometric morphometrics, is published by Katzke et al. (2018).[317]
Fossil ant species Eocenomyrma rugosostriata is reported for the first time from the EoceneRovno amber by Radchenko & Perkovsky (2018).[318]
A redescription of the Cretaceous nevrorthid species Cretarophalis patrickmuelleri is published by Lu et al. (2018).[319]
A study on the phylogenetic relationships of the fossil rove beetlesCretodeinopsis and Electrogymnusa is published by Yamamoto & Maruyama (2018), who also describe new fossil material of Cretodeinopsis and Electrogymnusa.[322]
Remains of fossil nests of dung beetles, recorded in four formations of the Cenozoic of South America, are described by Cantil et al. (2018).[323]
A study on the phylogenetic placement of the fossil beetle "Spondylis" florissantensis is published by Vitali (2018), who transfers this species to the genus Neandra.[324]
The cosmopolitan beetle Necrobia violacea, formerly thought to be introduced to the New World through European trade, is reported from the La Brea Tar Pits by Holden, Barclay & Angus (2018).[325]
A study on the lepidopteran scales from the Triassic-Jurassic transition (Rhaetian-Hettangian) of Germany and their implications for inferring the timing of the radiation of lepidopteran lineages is published by van Eldijk et al. (2018).[326]
Revision of the original type material and description of new fossils of the mecopteran species Chorista sobrina and Austropanorpa australis from the Paleogene Redbank Plains Formation (Australia) is published by Lambkin (2018).[331]
Redescription of known members of the peloropeodine genus Palaeomedeterus from Baltic amber is published by Grichanov & Negrobov (2018), who provide a key to species of Palaeomedeterus from Baltic amber.[332]
A study on changes in insect biodiversity in terms of the number of families throughout the history of the group is published by Dmitriev et al. (2018).[333]
^Yun Hsiao; Adam Ślipiński; Yali Yu; Congshuang Deng; Hong Pang (2018). "Allostrophus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov.: A new polypore fungus beetle (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) from the Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Cretaceous Research. 92: 195–200. Bibcode:2018CrRes..92..195H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.08.012. S2CID134364493.
^ abcJan Batelka; Michael S. Engel; Jakub Prokop (2018). "A remarkable diversity of parasitoid beetles (Ripiphoridae) in Cretaceous amber, with a summary of the Mesozoic record of Tenebrionoidea". Cretaceous Research. 90: 296–310. Bibcode:2018CrRes..90..296B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.019. S2CID134951153.
^ abTong Bao; Katarzyna S. Walczyńska; Samantha Moody; Bo Wang; Jes Rust (2018). "New family Apotomouridae fam. nov. (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from lower Cenomanian amber of Myanmar". Cretaceous Research. 91: 14–19. Bibcode:2018CrRes..91...14B. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.007. S2CID134585531.
^ abPaweł Jałoszyński; Adam J. Brunke; Shûhei Yamamoto; Yui Takahashi (2018). "Evolution of Mastigitae: Mesozoic and Cenozoic fossils crucial for reclassification of extant tribes (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae)". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 184 (3): 623–652. doi:10.1093/zoolinnean/zly010.
^ abcdeWioletta Tomaszewska; Adam Ślipiński; Ming Bai; Weiwei Zhang; Dong Ren (2018). "The oldest representatives of Endomychidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 91: 287–298. Bibcode:2018CrRes..91..287T. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.07.001. S2CID135401188.
^ abcAndrei A. Legalov (2018). "Two new weevil tribes (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) from Burmese amber". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 32 (1): 128–136. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1504936. S2CID92392018.
^ abFabrizio Fanti; Anders Leth Damgaard; Sieghard Ellenberger (2018). "Two new genera of Cantharidae from Burmese amber of the Hukawng Valley (Insecta, Coleoptera)". Cretaceous Research. 86: 170–177. Bibcode:2018CrRes..86..170F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.02.015.
^Andrei A. Legalov (2018). "A new weevil, Burmorhinus georgei gen. et sp. nov. (Coleoptera; Curculionidae) from the Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 13–17. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84...13L. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.002.
^Fabrizio Fanti; Janusz Kupryjanowicz (2018). "Discovery of a new fossil soldier beetle in Eocene Baltic amber, with the establishment of the new tribe Cacomorphocerini". Annales de Paléontologie. 104 (2): 149–153. Bibcode:2018AnPal.104..149F. doi:10.1016/j.annpal.2018.02.001.
^Ziwei Yin; Chenyang Cai; Di-Ying Huang (2018). "A potentially diverse fauna of springtail-hunting scydmaenines during the late Mesozoic (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)". Cretaceous Research. 90: 163–167. Bibcode:2018CrRes..90..163Y. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.04.020. S2CID134818626.
^Yu-Lingzi Zhou; Michael S. Caterino; Adam Ślipiński; Chen-Yang Cai (2018). "Cretohisteridae, a new beetle family from the Early Cretaceous of China, and its implications for the early evolution of the basal group of Histeroidea (Coleoptera)". Systematic Entomology. 43 (4): 716–728. doi:10.1111/syen.12300. S2CID89748522.
^Chenyang Cai; Diying Huang (2018). "First fossil thaneroclerid beetle from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Thanerocleridae)". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 42 (1): 115–119. Bibcode:2018Alch...42..115C. doi:10.1080/03115518.2017.1414878. S2CID133901403.
^ abcdeAlexander G. Kirejtshuk; Andre Nel (2018). "Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Paleocene of Menat (France)". Zootaxa. 4402 (1): 1–41. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.1. PMID29690276.
^Andris Bukejs; Xavier Bellés; Vitalii I. Alekseev (2018). "A new species of Dignomus Wollaston (Coleoptera: Ptinidae) from Eocene Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 4486 (2): 195–200. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4486.2.9. PMID30313762. S2CID52976035.
^ abcdefgA. G. Ponomarenko (2018). "New beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from the Upper Vyatkian Aristovo locality, European Russia". Paleontological Journal. 52 (6): 620–630. doi:10.1134/S0031030118060102. S2CID92664647.
^Sha Li; Yuanyuan Lu; Bo Wang; Jing Li; Xingke Yang; Ming Bai (2018). "†Electrorubesopsinae, a new subfamily from Cretaceous Burmese amber, as the possible sister group of Dynamopodinae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (4): 349–357. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1427638. S2CID90966037.
^Yali Yu; Adam Ślipiński; Dong Ren; Hong Pang (2018). "The first fossil Limnichidae from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea)". Annales Zoologici. 68 (4): 843–848. doi:10.3161/00034541ANZ2018.68.4.008. S2CID91579479.
^Zi-Wei Yin; Chen-Yang Cai (2018). "A new fossil species of Euroleptochromus Jałoszyński (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Eocene Baltic amber". Zootaxa. 4500 (1): 146–150. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.10. PMID30486084. S2CID54164550.
^ abcdefA. A. Legalov (2018). "New weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) from the Eocene of the Green River, United States: Part 2". Paleontological Journal. 52 (4): 421–428. doi:10.1134/S0031030118040081. S2CID90602536.
^Alexandr G. Ponomarenko; Alexei S. Bashkuev (2018). "First Triassic record of the beetle family Permocupedidae (Insecta: Coleoptera): a peculiar example of a Lazarus taxon". PalZ. 92 (4): 587–591. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0426-4. S2CID133665417.
^George Poinar Jr.; Alex E. Brown (2018). "Furcalabratum burmanicum gen. et sp. nov., a Short-winged Flower Beetle (Coleoptera: Kateretidae) in mid-Cretaceous Myanmar amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 240–244. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84..240P. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.11.010.
^David Peris; Josef Jelínek; Simone Sabatelli; Mei-Ke Liu; Constanza Peña-Kairath; Qian Zhao; Chen-Yang Cai; Kristaps Kairišs; Bastian Mähler; Peter T. Rühr; Jörg U. Hammel; Paolo Audisio (2024). "Archaic sap beetles (Coleoptera: Nitidulidae) as Cretaceous pollinators". Palaeoentomology. 7 (5): 594–610. doi:10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.4.
^Andris Bukejs; Jiří Háva (2018). "A new species of Globicornis Latreille (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from Baltic amber, with a key to fossil species". Zootaxa. 4483 (2): 395–400. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4483.2.11. PMID30313796. S2CID52977061.
^Fabrizio Fanti; Sieghard Ellenberger (2018). "A new fossil genus of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A probable case of adaptive convergence". Cretaceous Research. 92: 201–204. Bibcode:2018CrRes..92..201F. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.08.009. S2CID134955587.
^Shûhei Yamamoto; Vasily V. Grebennikov; Yui Takahashi (2018). "Kekveus jason gen. et sp. nov. from Cretaceous Burmese amber, the first extinct genus and the oldest named featherwing beetle (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae: Discheramocephalini)". Cretaceous Research. 90: 412–418. Bibcode:2018CrRes..90..412Y. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.05.016. S2CID134199716.
^A. V. Petrov; E. E. Perkovsky (2018). "A new genus and species of Scolytinae (Coleoptera: Curculionidae) from the Rovno amber". Paleontological Journal. 52 (2): 164–167. doi:10.1134/S0031030118020090. S2CID91039926.
^Sara Gamboa; Vicente M. Ortuño (2018). "A new fossil species of the genus Limodromus Motschulsky, 1850 (Coleoptera: Carabidae: Platynini) from Baltic amber with remarks on its death process". Insect Systematics & Evolution. 49 (4): 399–408. doi:10.1163/1876312X-00002169. S2CID90686851.
^Fabrizio Fanti; Artur Robert Michalski (2018). "An unusual fossil Malthodes with long elytra (Insecta Coleoptera Cantharidae)". Giornale Italiano di Entomologia. 15 (63): 127–132.
^Yun Hsiao; Chia-Lung Huang (2018). "Taxonomic revision on the genus Ornatomalthinus Poinar and Fanti (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) with description of a new species from the Cretaceous Burmese amber". Cretaceous Research. 92: 257–263. Bibcode:2018CrRes..92..257H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.08.018. S2CID135276404.
^Fabrizio Fanti (2018). "Sanaungulus ruicheni (Hsiao & Huang, 2018) n. comb. with the differential diagnosis of genera Sanaungulus Fanti, Damgaard & Ellenberger, 2018 and Ornatomalthinus Poinar & Fanti, 2016". Zootaxa. 4514 (3): 449–450. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4514.3.11. PMID30486210. S2CID54120503.
^Janina L. Kypke; Alexey Solodovnikov (2018). "Every cloud has a silver lining: X-ray micro-CT reveals Orsunius rove beetle in Rovno amber from a specimen inaccessible to light microscopy". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 32 (7): 940–950. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1558222. S2CID91583529.
^George O. Poinar Jr.; Fernando E. Vega; Andrei A. Legalov (2018). "New subfamily of ambrosia beetles (Coleoptera: Platypodidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber". Historical Biology: An International Journal of Paleobiology. 32 (1): 137–142. doi:10.1080/08912963.2018.1528446. S2CID91914451.
^Uwe Kaulfuss; Samuel D. J. Brown; Ian M. Henderson; Jacek Szwedo; Daphne E. Lee (2018). "First insects from the Manuherikia Group, early Miocene, New Zealand". Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand. 49 (4): 1–14. doi:10.1080/03036758.2018.1477054. S2CID135413745.
^Evgeny Viktorovich Yan; Rolf Georg Beutel; Robert Beattie; John Francis Lawrence (2018). "Ponomarenkium gen. nov., a replacement name for the stem group beetle Ponomarenkia Yan et al., 2017 (Insecta: Coleoptera)". Paleontological Journal. 52 (2): 220. doi:10.1134/S0031030118020156. S2CID90722201.
^ abZi-Wei Yin; De-Yao Zhou; Chen-Yang Cai (2018). "The genus Scydmobisetia Jałoszyński & Yamamoto, 2016 in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae)". Entomologische Blätter und Coleoptera. 114: 483–490. ISSN0013-8835.
^Jiří Kolibáč; Vitalii Alekseev (2018). "Seidlitzella hoffeinsorum sp. nov., the first representative of the beetle tribe Gymnochilini (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from Baltic amber". Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. 107 (2–3): 289–296. doi:10.1017/S1755691017000305. S2CID134229177.
^ abKarol Szawaryn; Jacek Szwedo (2018). "Have ladybird beetles and whiteflies co-existed for at least 40 Mya?". PalZ. 92 (4): 593–603. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0409-5. S2CID90619916.
^ abYuanyuan Lu; Ruie Nie; Chungkun Shih; Dong Ren; Xingke Yang; Ming Bai (2018). "New Scarabaeoidea (Coleoptera) from the Lower Cretaceous Yixian Formation, western Liaoning Province, China: Elucidating the systematics of Mesozoic Hybosoridae". Cretaceous Research. 86: 53–59. Bibcode:2018CrRes..86...53L. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.02.005. S2CID134973780.
^Alexander G. Kirejtshuk; Philipp E. Chetverikov (2018). "Discovery of a Nitidulidae in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea) with description of a new genus and taxonomic notes". Cretaceous Research. 89: 174–182. Bibcode:2018CrRes..89..174K. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2018.03.021. S2CID134043538.
^Yun Hsiao; Chia-Lung Huang (2018). "Spinotoma ruicheni: A new Late Cretaceous genus and species of wedge-shaped beetle from Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, Pelecotominae)". Cretaceous Research. 82: 29–35. Bibcode:2018CrRes..82...29H. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.022.
^Konstantin S. Nadein; Evgeny E. Perkovsky (2018). "A new tribe of Galerucinae leaf beetle (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from the Upper Cretaceous Taimyr amber". Cretaceous Research. 84: 97–106. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84...97N. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.10.023.
^Tong Bao; Katarzyna S. Walczyńska; Błażej Bojarski; Ed Jarzembowski; Bo Wang; Jes Rust (2018). "A new species of tumbling flower beetle (Coleoptera: Mordellidae) from Baltic amber". PalZ. 93 (1): 31–36. doi:10.1007/s12542-018-0434-4. S2CID92490311.
^ abA. G. Kirejtshuk; A. A. Prokin (2018). "The position of the Palaeozoic genus Tunguskagyrus Yan, Beutel et Lawrence in the family Triaplidae sensu n. (Coleoptera, Archostemata: Schizophoroidea)". Entomological Review. 98 (7): 872–882. doi:10.1134/S0013873818070084. S2CID56575826.
^Chenyang Cai; Margaret K. Thayer; Alfred F. Newton; Ziwei Yin; Diying Huang (2018). "A new genus of dasycerine rove beetles from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber and its phylogenetic implications (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae)". Cretaceous Research. 84: 431–436. Bibcode:2018CrRes..84..431C. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2017.12.004.
^Petr Kočárek (2018). "Alienopterella stigmatica gen. et sp. nov.: the second known species and specimen of Alienoptera extends knowledge about this Cretaceous order (Insecta: Polyneoptera)". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 17 (6): 491–499. doi:10.1080/14772019.2018.1440440. S2CID90147082.
^ abcdefghiPeter Vršanský; Günter Bechly; Qingqing Zhang; Edmund A. Jarzembowski; Tomáš Mlynský; Lucia Šmídová; Peter Barna; Matúš Kúdela; Danil Aristov; Sonia Bigalk; Lars Krogmann; Liqin Li; Qi Zhang; Haichun Zhang; Sieghard Ellenberger; Patrick Müller; Carsten Gröhn; Fangyuan Xia; Kyoichiro Ueda; Peter Vďačný; Daniel Valaška; Lucia Vršanská; Bo Wang (2018). "Batesian insect-insect mimicry-related explosive radiation of ancient alienopterid cockroaches". Biologia. 73 (10): 987–1006. doi:10.2478/s11756-018-0117-3. S2CID52270212.
^Cihang Luo; Chunpeng Xu; Edmund A. Jarzembowski (2020). "Enervipraeala nigra gen. et sp. nov., a umenocoleid dictyopteran (Insecta) from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber". Cretaceous Research. 119: Article 104702. doi:10.1016/j.cretres.2020.104702. S2CID228921647.
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