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Issue: Vol. 4402 No. 1: 27 Mar. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-03-27
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4402.1.1
Page range: 1–41
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Nitidulidae (Coleoptera) from the Paleocene of Menat (France)

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia. Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité, ISYEB - UMR 7205 – CNRS, MNHN, UPMC, EPHE, Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, Sorbonne Universités, 57 rue Cuvier, CP 50, Entomologie, F-75005, Paris, France.
Coleoptera Nitidulinae Epuraeinae Cryptarchinae fossil record

Abstract

This paper is devoted to the study of the first Palaeocene Nitidulidae, all from the lacustrine outcrop of Menat (France), viz. Nitoraeopsis mixta gen. et sp. nov. (Epuraeinae, first fossil member of Taenioncini); ?Soronia spp. (S. menatensis sp. nov. and S. sp.) of the Soronia-complex of genera (Nitidulinae, Nitidulini); Menatoraea gen. nov. (M. typica sp. nov. (type species), M. angustitibialis sp. nov., M. laticollis sp. nov., and M. gracilis sp. nov.) of the Pocadius- or Thalycra-complexes, and Palaeolycra palaeocenica gen. et sp. nov. of the Thalycra-complex (Nitidulinae, Nitidulini); and ?Cryptarcha subglobosa sp. nov., oldest fossil record of the tribe Cryptarchini sensu stricto (Cryptarchinae). A key to the species of Menatoraea gen. nov. and a review of the fossil record of the family Nitidulidae are provided.

 

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