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Issue: Vol. 4551 No. 1: 30 Jan. 2019
Type: Article
Published: 2019-01-29
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4551.1.4
Page range: 67–78
Abstract views: 62
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Two new fossil representatives of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Mycteridae) from Eocene Baltic amber and placement of Neopolypria nigra Abdullah, 1964 

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, Moscow,117997, Russia.
Department of Biology, Eastern New Mexico University, Portales, NM 88130 USA.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
Coleoptera Glesoconomorphus nachzehrer Omineus febribilis new taxa Paleogene fossil resin

Abstract

Two new species of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) are described from Eocene Baltic amber from the Kaliningrad Region, Russia: Glesoconomorphus nachzehrer gen. et sp. nov. and Omineus febribilis sp. nov. The first new fossil taxon displays affinity to recent members of the Neotropical Conomorphus-Stilpnonotus lineage, and the second species was placed into the present-day eastern and southeastern Asian genus Omineus Lewis. The fossil Neopolypria nigra Abdullah, 1964 (Baltic amber) is moved from Mycteridae and placed as incertae sedis within Tenebrionoidea Latreille, 1802.

 

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