A strange beetle in Burmese amber

[Vopros]

The attached images are a microscopic images of a beetle in Burmese amber. As you can see its front legs look differently and rather strange. Also one of the images shows something that looks like an egg on its left leg and a small white something next to it. This small white thing might be a larvae. There is a fossil record of scale infect with eggs attached to their feet, but I was not able to find anything similar in regards to beetles. What do you think?

[patelinho7]

It kind of looks like air bubbles though, just a feature of how it hardened 

[Biotalker]

I agree. These are most likely bubbles that are trapped by the beetle's body. Very occasionally, one might see emissions that come from the insect.

[JBkansas]

Looks like a beetle with funky air bubbles to me.

 

** originally said weevil but the jaws are decidedly non-weevil

Edited January 23, 2023 by JBkansas

[Vopros]

Well, these are rather strange air bubbles that somehow concentrated only on front legs and besides they are not transparent like most air bubbles are.

[patelinho7]

Air bubbles aren’t transparent in amber, rather the opposite. And only the front legs means perhaps it was able to move its front legs around a bit to create space which then hardened

[Vopros]

But the air bubbles are round. I think rather it might be some crystals that formed in amber.

[JohnJ]

@vermiculosis

 

[siteseer]

12 hours ago, Vopros said:

But the air bubbles are round. I think rather it might be some crystals that formed in amber.

 

I've heard of iron pyrite crystals forming in amber but I think those are air bubbles too.

[Yoda]

I also think this looks like air bubbles. 

[vermiculosis]

In My opinion air bubbles / gas as well. I don't see any eggs or larva.
Beetle looks like Zopheridae to me. But i am not coleopteran master.

cheers from amber cave

[Vopros]

8 hours ago, vermiculosis said:

In My opinion air bubbles / gas as well. I don't see any eggs or larva.
Beetle looks like Zopheridae to me. But i am not coleopteran master.

cheers from amber cave

could you please tell me what is there on its head that looks like moss?

 

thanks!

[JBkansas]

1 hour ago, Vopros said:

could you please tell me what is there on its head that looks like moss?

That's what everyone is saying is air bubbles.  Air bubbles in thin liquids are round but in thicker liquids (such as resin/sap), they can be distorted. They aren't clear because the refraction index of the amber/air interface.

Edited January 24, 2023 by JBkansas