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Issue: Vol. 1661 No. 1: 14 Dec. 2007
Type: Article
Published: 2007-12-14
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.1661.1.7
Page range: 63–68
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 1

Contribution to the knowledge of the fossil subgenus Nestormeus Godunko, 2004 (Ephemeroptera: Heptageniidae: Ecdyonurus) from the Baltic amber (Eocene)

State Museum of Natural History, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Teatralna 18, 79008 Lviv, Ukraine and Biology Centre of the Academy of Science of the Czech Republic, Institute of Entomology, Branišovská 31, 37005 České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Ephemeroptera Heptageniidae Ecdyonurus Nestormeus new species Eocene Baltic amber

Abstract

A female imago of Ecdyonurus groehnorum sp. nov. from the Baltic amber (Eocene) is described and illustrated. We have placed this new species within the early described subgenus Nestormeus Godunko, 2004 because of the presence of the short, curved lateroparapsidal sutures on the mesonotum, which are noncontiguous with the medioparapsidal sutures.

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