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Issue: Vol. 5 No. 3: June 2022
Type: Article
Published: 2022-06-27
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.5.3.7
Page range: 246–253
Abstract views: 308
PDF downloaded: 295

Homalenchodes, a new genus of Serropalpini from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Melandryidae)

State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, GPO Box 1700, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia; Division of Ecology and Evolution, Research School of Biology, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
Entomological Laboratory, Faculty of Agriculture, Ehime University, Tarumi 3–5–7, Matsuyama 790–8577, Japan
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China
State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Centre for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China; School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
Coleoptera Tenebrionoidea Melandryidae Enchodes fossil Cretaceous Burmese amber

Abstract

A new fossil genus and species of the family Melandryidae, Homalenchodes jarzembowskii Li, Hsiao, Yoshitomi & Cai gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated from the mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber. Homalenchodes is likely closely related to the serropalpin genus Enchodes LeConte, based on their simple maxillary palps, complete prosternal process, exposed protrochantins, ventrally lobed penultimate metatarsomeres, and absence of transverse rows of bristles or spines along the meso- and metatibiae.

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