taxonID	type	description	language	source
7912B05D83212910EEFEFA241F3E39BF.taxon	type_taxon	Type species: Cretadystaxia burmanica sp. nov.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212910EEFEFA241F3E39BF.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet of the new genus comes from the Cretaceous and the generic name “ Dystaxia ”.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212910EEFEFA241F3E39BF.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. As for tribe.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212910EEFEFCA61EB83AC4.taxon	materials_examined	Type genus: Cretadystaxia gen. nov.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212910EEFEFCA61EB83AC4.taxon	diagnosis	Diagnosis. Body dorsally finely punctate; eyes finely facetted; maxillary palpomeres third and fourth equal in length; antennae eleven-segmented, weakly serrate; antennomeres elongated triangular; pronotum with weak lateral carinae; pronotal disc without impressions; base of pronotum weakly bisinuate; lateral margins of elytra serrate; elytral striae present; metepisternum broad, narrowed posteriorly; first and second ventrites with suture visible only laterally; metacoxae notched on anterior margin; femora without disto-ventral grooves for tibiae; metatibia with spur and dense brush of setae on apical third of inner margin; tarsi five-segmented; tarsomere fourth deeply bilobed; tarsal claws bifid. Comparison. The new tribe is similar to the tribe Dystaxiini, but differs in the 11 - segmented antennae, striate elytra, the weakly bisinuate base of the pronotum and the flattened body. It differs from the tribe Schizopodini in the serrate elongate triangular antennomeres, striate elytra, pronotal disc without impressions and body sculpture of fine punctures, and from the tribe Electrapatini in the broad metepisternum narrowed posteriorly, striate elytra, metacoxae notched at anterior margin, first and second ventrites with suture visible only laterally, maxillary palpomere fourth equal in length to palpomere third, femora without disto-ventral grooves for tibiae.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212912EEFEF8D01F963CBD.taxon	description	(Fig. 1)	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212912EEFEF8D01F963CBD.taxon	materials_examined	Type material. Holotype, female: ISEA MA 2019 - 1, Burmese amber, Myanmar; Cenomanian, late Cretaceous.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212912EEFEF8D01F963CBD.taxon	etymology	Etymology. The epithet of this new species is from Burma – “ Myanmar ”.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212912EEFEF8D01F963CBD.taxon	description	Description. Body black, flattened dorsally, densely punctate, covered with rather long adpressed setae. Forehead broad. Eyes slightly protruding, finely facetted, rounded. Palpi of maxilla with four palpomeres. Fourth palpomere equal in length to third. Antennae eleven-segmented, weakly serrate, without club. First antennomere about 2.9 times as long as wide at apex. Second antennomere subordinate to antennomere first. Third to fifth antennomeres equal in width. Third antennomere 4.0 times as long as wide at apex, of same length and about 0.7 times as narrow as antennomere second. Fourth to seventh antennomeres of same length. Fourth antennomere 3.6 times as long as wide at apex, 0.9 times as long as antennomere third. Fifth antennomere equal to antennomere fourth. Sixth antennomere 4.5 times as long as wide at apex, 0.8 times as narrow as antennomere sixth. Seventh antennomere 3.6 times as long as wide at apex, about 1.3 times as wide as antennomere six. Eighth antennomere about 2.8 times as long as wide at apex, about 0.9 times as long and 1.2 times as wide as antennomere seventh. Ninth antennomere equal to antennomere eighth. Tenth antennomere about 2.7 times as long as wide at apex, about 0.9 times as long and as wide as antennomere ninth. Eleventh antennomere 2.8 times as long as broad at middle, about 0.9 times as long and about 0.8 times as narrow as antennomere tenth. Pronotum almost bell-shaped, about 1.2 times as long as broad at apex, equal to broad at middle, about 0.9 times as long as broad at base, with weak lateral pronotal carinae. Elytra densely punctate, without impressions. Elytra oval, broadest near middle, 1.7 times as long as broad across base, about 1.5 times as long as broad across middle, about 2.3 times as long as broad across apical fourth, about 1.9 times as long as pronotum, with weak humeri. Lateral margins serrate. Elytral striae present. Interstriae quite wide. Procoxal part of prosternum 2.0 times as long as length of procoxal cavity. Metaventrite weakly convex, about 1.9 times as long as mesocoxal cavity length. Metepisternum broad, about 1.3 times as long as broad at middle, narrowing posteriorly. Abdomen weakly convex. First ventrite about 1.5 times as long as length of mesocoxal cavity. Second ventrite about 0.8 times as long as ventrite first. Third ventrite about 0.6 times as long as ventrite second. Fourth ventrite about 0.7 times as long as ventrite third. Fifth ventrite about 1.9 times as long as fourth ventrite. Legs long. Femora weakly clavate, unarmed. Metafemora about 2.3 times as long as broad at centre. Tibiae straight. Metatibia 6.4 times as long as broad at apex, with spur and dense brush of setae on apical third of inner margin. Tarsi long, five-segmented. Metatarsi: second tarsomere 0.5 times as long as tarsomere first; third tarsomere equal in length to tarsomere second; fourth tarsomere slightly shorter than tarsomere third; fifth tarsomere about 2.3 times as long as tarsomere fourth. Fourth tarsomere with long lobe below, completely divided into two parts. Claws bifid. Body length 4.6 mm.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83212912EEFEF8D01F963CBD.taxon	discussion	Remarks. This species belongs to the family Schizopodidae because it is characterised by a broad metepisternum and a tarsomere fourth with a long lobe underneath, completely divided into two parts. The following is a list of Schizopodidae:	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83232912EEFEFADC192A3A99.taxon	description	Genus Dystaxia LeConte, 1866 Dystaxia murrayi LeConte, 1866 – USA (California), Mexico (Baja California) = Dystaxia lecontei Thompson, 1879 Dystaxia elegans Fall, 1905 – USA (California), Mexico (Baja California)	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83232912EEFEF9C819BF3997.taxon	description	Glyptoseelimorpha (Glyptoseelimorpha) marmorata Horn, 1893 – USA (California) Glpptoscelimorpha (Glyptoseelimorpha) viridis Chamberlin, 1931 – USA (California)	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83232912EEFEF8F818263885.taxon	description	Schizopus laetus LeConte, 1858 – USA (Arizona, California, Nevada), Mexico (Baja California) = Yermoella helferi Obenberger, 1939	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83242914EEFEFF271E913BF7.taxon	discussion	Discussion The superfamily Buprestoidea consists of the families Schizopodidae and Buprestidae. The oldest records of the subfamily Parathyreinae of the Buprestidae are from the Middle Jurassic, the Bathonian of the Nizhegorodskaya Oblast (Gorky Geological Profile) of Russia (Alexeev 1994) and from the Callovian of the Middle Jurassic to the Oxfordian of the late Jurassic, the Jiulongshan Formation of China (Pan et al. 2011). The Buprestidae are also represented by several species described from beetles (Jiang et al. 2021; Li et al. 2023) and larvae (Haug et al. 2021; Molino-Olmedo 2023) in Burmese amber. The modern distribution is limited to south-eastern North America, but fossils are only known from Eurasia (Fig. 2). It is thought that the group originated in Asia and later entered the New World in the Paleocene or Eocene, where it has survived to the present day. Acknowledgements The author is grateful to the anonymous reviewers who helped to improve the manuscript.	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
7912B05D83242914EEFEFF271E913BF7.taxon	description	Cobos, A. (1963) Comentarios criticos sobre algunos Sternoxia fosiles del ambar del Baltico recientemente descritos (Coleoptera). Eos, Revista Espanola de Entomologica, 39, 345 – 355. Haug, C., Haug, G. T., Zippel, A., Van Der Wal, S. & Haug, J. T. (2021) The earliest record of fossil solid-wood-borer larvae – immature beetles in 99 million-year-old Myanmar amber. Palaeoentomology, 4 (4), 390 – 404. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / palaeoentomology. 4.4.14 Iablokoff-Khnzorian, S. M. (1962) Representatives of Sternoxia (Coleoptera) from Baltic amber. Family Throscidae Bach, 1849 (Trixagidae sensu Crowson). Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 3, 81 – 89. (in Russian). Jiang, R., Song, H., Zhang, H. & Wang, S. (2021) Burmagrilus cretacus gen. et sp. nov., the first Buprestidae from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research, 125, 104866. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1016 / j. cretres. 2021.104866 Lawrence, J. F., Beutel, R. G., Leschen, R. A. B. & Ślipiński, S. A. (2010). Chapter 2. Glossary of Morphological Terms. Handbook of Zoology. Arthropoda: Insecta. Tb. 40: Coleoptera (Beetles). Vol. 2: Morphology and Systematic (Elateroidea, Bostrichformia, Cucujiformia partim), P. 9 – 20. Li, Y. - D., Volkovitsh, M. G., Song, H. - T., Huang, D. - Y. & Cai, C. - Y. (2023) Dictyorachys gen. nov., an enigmatic genus of jewel beetles from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Bulletin of Geosciences, 98 (2), 161 – 169. https: // doi. org / 10.3140 / bull. geosci. 1875 Molino-Olmedo, F. (2023) Description of Cretoctesis conchimillanae gen. et sp. nov. larva from Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Paleontological Journal, 57 (3), S 262 – S 267. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1134 / S 0031030123600063 Nelson, G. H. & Bellamy, C. L. (1991) A revision and phylogenetic re-evaluation of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera, Buprestoidea). Journal of Natural History, 25 (4), 985 – 1026. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.1080 / 00222939100770651 Pan, X., Chang, H., Ren, D. & Shih, C. (2011) The first fossil buprestids from the Middle Jurassic Jiulongshan Formation of China (Coleoptera: Buprestidae). Zootaxa, 2745 (1), 53 – 62. http: // dx. doi. org / 10.11646 / zootaxa. 2745.1.4 Shi, G., Grimaldi, D. A., Harlow, G. E., Wang, J., Wang, J., Yang, M., Lei, W., Li, Q. & Li, X. (2012) Age constraint on Burmese amber based on U – Pb dating of zircons. Cretaceous Research, 37, 155 – 163. https: // doi. org / 10.1016 / j. cretres. 2012.03.014	en	Legalov, Andrei A. (2025): First record of the family Schizopodidae (Coleoptera) from Cretaceous Kachin amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 82: 74-79, DOI: 10.37828/em.2025.82.4, URL: https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2025.82.4
