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Issue: Vol. 4750 No. 3: 12 Mar. 2020
Type: Article
Published: 2020-03-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4750.3.7
Page range: 418–424
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A new fossil species of Bolitophagini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Baltic amber suggests the genus Eledonoprius Reitter is persistent in the Western Palaearctic since the Tertiary

Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, 117997 Moscow, Russia. Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii square 1, 236016, Kaliningrad, Russia
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia.
Museum of Amber Inclusions, Department of Invertebrate Zoology and Parasitology, University of Gdańsk, Wita Stwosza 59, 80-308 Gdańsk, Poland.
Coleoptera palaeontology Cenozoic fossil resin Tenebrioninae

Abstract

The first fossil representative of Eledonoprius Reitter, E. incoronatus sp. nov., is described from Eocene Baltic amber. The genus is associated with old-growth forests in the modern Western Palaearctic Region and apparently has persistent in this Region since the Paleogene.

 

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