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Issue: Vol. 3608 No. 1: 16 Jan. 2013
Type: Article
Published: 2013-01-16
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3608.1.8
Page range: 94–100
Abstract views: 27
PDF downloaded: 3

A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, with a brief review of amber Lycidae (Insecta: Coleoptera)

Insect Centre, Donetskaya 13-326, Moscow 109651, Russia
Coleoptera Lycidae new genus new species taxonomy Baltic amber palaeoentomology Eocene

Abstract

A new fossil genus of net-winged beetles, Protolopheros gen. n., and a new species, Protolopheros hoffeinsorum sp. n., are described from the Baltic amber. The new taxon is placed in Erotini, next to Lopheros Leconte, 1881. The extant Pseudaplatopterus (Eropterus) Green, 1951, comb. n. is lowered in rank and placed as a subgenus of the fossil Pseudaplatopterus Kleine, 1940. The extant Kolibaceum (Laterialis) Kazantsev, 1990, comb. n. is lowered in rank and placed as a subgenus of the fossil Kolibaceum Winkler, 1987.

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