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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 4: August 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-08-30
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.4.1
Page range: 453-456
Abstract views: 199
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A new species of the extinct genus Taphioporus Moseyko & Kirejtshuk (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) from Baltic amber

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia
Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences Universitetskaya nab. 1, St. Petersburg, 199034, Russia
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nevskogo 14, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia
palaeodiversity Eumolpinae Cenozoic fossil resin species richness Coleoptera Chrysomelidae

Abstract

Altogether, 33 fossils of Chrysomelidae in species rank have been described from Baltic amber to date and assigned to nine subfamilies (e.g. Uhmann, 1939; Bukejs & Nadein, 2013, 2015; Bukejs, 2014, 2019; Biondi, 2014; Bukejs & Bezděk, 2014; Bukejs & Chamorro, 2015; Bukejs et al., 2023a; Bukejs & Schmitt, 2016; Legalov, 2016). Eumolpinae are represented by six species within three extinct and one extant genera (Moseyko & Kirejtshuk, 2013; Bukejs & Moseyko, 2015; Nadein et al., 2016; Bukejs et al., 2023b).

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