Bukhkalius Explained

Bukhkalius is an extinct genus of beetle belonging to the family Ommatidae, it contains the single species, Bukhkalius lindae. It was described in 2017 initially as a species of the extant genus Tetraphalerus[1] and was placed into a separate monotypic genus in 2020,[2] which was reaffirmed in a 2021 study.[3] It is known from a single specimen (NIGP 166152) from Burmese amber, dating to the Cenomanian stage of the Late Cretaceous. The specimen is around 4.7 mm long and around 1.3 mm wide.

Notes and References

  1. Jarzembowski. Edmund A.. Wang. Bo. Zheng. Daran. October 2017. Another amber first: A tiny tetraphalerin beetle (Coleoptera: Archostemata) in Myanmar birmite. Cretaceous Research. en. 78. 84–88. 10.1016/j.cretres.2017.05.023.
  2. A. G. Kirejtshuk and E. A. Jarzembowski. 2020. Appendix A. Taxonomic review of fossil coleopterous families (Insecta, Coleoptera). Suborder Archostemata: Superfamilies Coleopseoidea and Cupedoidea. Geosciences 10:73
  3. Li. Yan-Da. Huang. Di-Ying. Cai. Chen-Yang. 2021. Revisiting the morphology and systematic placement of the enigmatic Cretaceous ommatid beetle Bukhkalius lindae (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae). Papéis Avulsos de Zoologia. en. 61. e20216128 . 10.11606/1807-0205/2021.61.28. 0031-1049. free.

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