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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 5: October 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-10-30
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.5.2
Page range: 587–589
Abstract views: 159
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Proposal of a new species for a previously described elmine larva (Coleoptera, Elmidae) from the Lower Eocene of Rajasthan (India, Palana Formation)

Zoological Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya emb., 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Department of Geology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, 246174 Uttarakhand, India
Department of Geology, Hemvati Nandan Bahuguna Garhwal University, Srinagar, 246174 Uttarakhand, India
Papanin Institute for Biology of Inland Waters, Russian Academy of Sciences, 152742, Borok, Nekouzsky District, Yaroslavl Oblast, Russia; Voronezh State University, 284018, Voronezh, Universitetskaya pl., 1, Russia
Institut de Systématique, Évolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, EPHE, Université des Antilles, CP50, 57 rue Cuvier, F-75005 Paris, France
India Palana Formation

Abstract

A single elmid larva reported from a laminate maroon shale bed of Gurha opencast lignite mine (Palana Formation, early Eocene, Bikaner District, north-western Rajasthan, India: Kumar et al., 2016) is the first preimaginal fossil known up to date. It was thoroughly examined and published by Kirejtshuk et al. (2023). However, because of the absence of any unambiguous diagnostic character for a strict generic attribution of this fossil, its rather described larva remained unnamed. Taking into consideration the scientific importance of this fact for different aspects of our knowledge it is rather advisable to introduce the description of this specimen to scientific community with a concrete specific name and probable generic attribution.

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