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Issue: Vol. 4178 No. 3: 26 Oct. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-10-25
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4178.3.6
Page range: 409–427
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New Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber

Department of Zootechny, FGBOU VPO Kaliningrad State Technical University, Sovetsky av. 1, 236000, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības Str. 13, Daugavpils, Latvia.
Coleoptera Zopherinae Colydiinae cylindrical bark beetles ironclad beetles new species fossil resin Tertiary Eocene

Abstract

Four new zopherid species are described and illustrated from Eocene Baltic amber: Xylolaemus legalovi sp. nov., X. richardklebsi sp. nov., Diodesma slipinskii sp. nov., and Endophloeus gorskii sp. nov. A key to species of Xylolaemus Redtenbacher, described from Baltic amber, and a checklist of fossil Zopheridae are provided. The montane distribution of several recent representatives of dendrophilous zopherids in Europe and the connection of such a distributional type with modern human activity is discussed.

 

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