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Issue: Vol. 5692 No. 3: 15 Sept. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-09-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5692.3.9
Page range: 577-584
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A new handsome fungus beetle of the subfamily Endomychinae (Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) from Baltic amber of the Sambian Peninsula

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; Nevskogo 14; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia; Shirshov Institute of Oceanology; Russian Academy of Sciences; Nakhimovsky Prosp.; 36; Moscow 117997; Russia
Museum and Institute of Zoology; Polish Academy of Sciences; Twarda 51/55; Warsaw 00-818; Poland
Coleoptera taxonomy Palaeogene palaeodiversity fossil resin

Abstract

Based on an inclusion in Baltic amber, the first extinct species of the genus Danae Reiche and the second species of the subfamily Endomychinae from the Eocene is described and illustrated. The new fossil species, D. sembanata sp. nov., is compared with related extant and morphologically close extinct taxa. General rarity of endomychid specimens in Baltic amber is briefly discussed.

 

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How to Cite

Alekseev, V. & Tomaszewska, W. (2025) A new handsome fungus beetle of the subfamily Endomychinae (Coccinelloidea: Endomychidae) from Baltic amber of the Sambian Peninsula. Zootaxa, 5692 (3), 577–584. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5692.3.9