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Issue: Vol. 4 No. 5: September 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.4.5.15
Page range: 499–514
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Redescriptions of beetles of the Notocupes generic complex (Coleoptera: Archostemata: Ommatidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Buryatia

Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, Moscow 117647, Russia
Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya str. 123, Moscow 117647, Russia
Coleoptera Archostemata Ommatidae Zygadenia Baissa fossils

Abstract

The term “generic complex” is proposed for 12 previously synonymized fossil genera of Ommatidae. Redescriptions of three species of the genus Notocupes are provided: N. excellens Ponomarenko, 1966, N. caudatus Ponomarenko, 1966 and N. vitimensis Ponomarenko, 1966, as well as a description of an elytron of a new species Zygadenia alexrasnitsyni sp. nov., from the Lower Cretaceous locality Baissa (Vitim River headwaters, Eastern Transbaikalia). The descriptions contain selected morphological characters that will be used in future redescriptions.

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