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Issue: Vol. 5715 No. 1: 28 Oct. 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-10-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.41
Page range: 476-488
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Jiricateres—new extinct genus of Lophocateridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from late Eocene European amber

Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals; Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Frunze 11; Novosibirsk 630091; Russia; Tomsk State University; Lenina prospekt 36; Tomsk 634050; Russia
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University; Nevskogo 14; Kaliningrad 236016; Russia
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies; Daugavpils University; Vienības 13; Daugavpils LV-5401; Latvia
A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Profsoyuznaya 123; Moscow 117868; Russia
Altai State University; Lenina 61; Barnaul; 656049; Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen; Denmark
Coleoptera taxonomy paleodiversity Paleogene inclusions fossil resin new taxa

Abstract

A new genus, Jiricateres Tshernyshev, Alekseev, Bukejs, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky, gen. nov., and three new extinct species of bark-gnawing beetles (Coleoptera, Lophocateridae), are described and illustrated from studied set of inclusions in Baltic and Rovno amber. The Baltic amber lophocaterid Promanodes alleni Kolibáč, 2011 is herein transferred to this genus. The identification key for the representatives of the genus, namely Jiricateres alleni (Kolibáč, 2011) comb. nov. J. storozhenkoi Tshernyshev, Alekseev, Bukejs, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky, sp. nov., J. damzeni Tshernyshev, Alekseev, Bukejs, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky, sp. nov., and J. ukrainicus Tshernyshev, Alekseev, Bukejs, Vasilenko, Legalov & Perkovsky, sp. nov. is provided.

 

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How to Cite

Tshernyshev, S.E., Alekseev, V., Bukejs, A., Vasilenko, D.V., Legalov, A.A. & Perkovsky, E.E. (2025) Jiricateres—new extinct genus of Lophocateridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from late Eocene European amber. Zootaxa, 5715 (1), 476–488. https://doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5715.1.41