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Issue: Vol. 4193 No. 2: 16 Nov. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-11-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4193.2.13
Page range: 390–400
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New records and species of Crepidodera Chevrolat (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) in Eocene European amber, with a brief review of described fossil beetles from Bitterfeld amber

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas Str. 13, Daugavpils, Latvia.
Department of Health, Life and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, 67100 Coppito-L’Aquila, Italy.
Department of Zootechny, FGBOU VO “Kaliningrad State Technical University”, Sovetsky av. 1. 236000 Kaliningrad, Russia.
Coleoptera taxonomy palaeontology flea-beetles new species fossil resin Paleogene

Abstract

Based on six relatively well-preserved specimens from Eocene Baltic amber, Crepidodera tertiotertiaria sp. nov. is described. The new species is illustrated and compared with morphologically similar extant and fossil relatives. It is the third described fossil species of Crepidodera Chevrolat. In addition to the new taxon, new fossil records of C. decolorata Nadein & Perkovsky from Baltic and Bitterfeld amber are presented. A key to species of Crepidodera described from fossil resins is provided, and a checklist of Coleoptera described from Bitterfeld amber is compiled.

 

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