Curculionidae

Bukejs, Andris, HAEva, Jiří & Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2020, A new fossil species of Attagenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in Rovno and Baltic ambers, with a brief review of known fossil beetles from the Rovno amber Lagerstätte, Fossil Record 23 (1), pp. 95-104 : 101

Family Curculionidae

46. Arostropsis perkovskyi Bukejs et Legalov, 2019b 47. Caulophilus martynovae Legalov, Nazarenko et Perkovsky, 2019

48. Caulophilus zherikhini Nazarenko, Legalov et Perkovsky, 2011

49. Dorytomus vlaskini Legalov, Nazarenko et

Perkovsky, 2019

50. Klesovia pubescens Petrov et Perkovsky, 2018 51. Paonaupactus gracilis Legalov, Nazarenko et Perkovsky, 2019

52. Paonaupactus katyae Legalov, Nazarenko et

Perkovsky, 2019

53. Protoceletes hirtus Nazarenko et Perkovsky, 2016 54. Rovnoslonik damzeni Legalov, Nazarenko et

Perkovsky, 2019

55. Stenommatomorphus hexarthrus Nazarenko in Nazarenko et Perkovsky, 2009

56. Taphramites rovnoensis Petrov et Perkovsky, 2008 57. Xylechinus mozolevskae Petrov et Perkovsky, 2008

The known assemblage of the Rovno amber Coleoptera composes 57 species belonging to 50 genera and 20 families. A total of 49 species are known only from this Lagerstätte, and eight species ( Anaspis horaki , Attagenus gedanicissimus sp. nov., Baltostigus horribilis , Dysanabatium kechrimparense , Latridius alexeevi , Mimoplatycis notha , Neolitochropus bedovoyi , Orchesia rasnitzyni ) are also known or are primarily described from Baltic amber (i.e. are common for these two ambers). From the listed beetle genera with described species, 28 genera (56 %) are common with Baltic amber, i.e. have described analogues; 13 genera are palaeoendemic for Rovno amber (26 %); and 9 genera (18 %) are recent but have no described species in Baltic amber.

The study of Rovno amber was focused first of all on new descriptions and on the search for new taxa, while studies on the similarities and differences with the assemblage of Baltic amber species were mainly beyond the scope of the current palaeontological papers. The ratio of 49 palaeoendemic species to eight species common with Baltic amber is a subjective present-day stage of research, but not an objective and real ratio of common and “endemic” Coleoptera in these ambers. The species list of the Rovno amber beetles does not contain any data on many species-rich beetle families in Baltic amber ( Aderidae , Carabidae , Cerambycidae , Cleridae , Elateridae , and Scirtidae ) at all: although these families are known in Rovno amber, the representatives are still without generic or specific attribution. We suppose that the lack of such information is a very important part of the general scarcity of reliable data for analysis at the moment.