RHadalIdae (LeConte, 1861)

Gimmel, Matthew L. & Mayor, Adriean J., 2023, Protomauroania Tshernyshev, 2021, a Newly Proposed Synonym of Semijulistus Schilsky, 1894 (Coleoptera: Rhadalidae: Microjulistini), The Coleopterists Bulletin 77 (4), pp. 648-649 : 648-649

FamIlY RHadalIdae SUbfamIlY RHadalInae

TrIbe MIcrojUlIstInI

Semijulistus Schilsky, 1894 (= Protomauroania Tshernyshev, 2021 , new sYnonYm) Semijulistus chaetophoratus (Tshernyshev, 2021) , new combInatIon from Protomauroania Semijulistus mikhailovi (Tshernyshev and Perkovsky, 2021) , new combInatIon from Protomauroania

Other Rhadalidae have been described from amber deposits, namely Aploceble Majer, 1998 and its three constituent species from Baltic amber ( Majer 1998). Unnamed species putatively belonging to Malthacodes Waterhouse, 1876 (as? Xamerpus Fairmaire, 1886 ) and Aplocnemus Stephens, 1830 from Baltic amber were illustrated and discussed in the same paper. Later, TshernYshev (2012) described the additional subgenus and species Aploceble (Chalcoaploceble) viridiaenea Tshernyshev, 2012 , also from Baltic amber; Tshernyshev (2019) added one Baltic amber species of Aploceble and two Baltic amber species of Aplocnemus . A species of Microjulistus Reitter, 1889 has also reportedly been observed in Baltic amber (see Majer 1998).

The above record of Semijulistus in European amber is notable, as the eight extant species of the genus have a Holarctic distribution, with the only three Palearctic species occurring exclusively in the Eastern Palearctic ( Kazakhstan, Russia [West Siberia], and Japan) ( MaYor 2007).