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Issue: Vol. 7 No. 6: December 2024
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2024-12-20
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.7.6.4
Page range: 707-710
Abstract views: 41
PDF downloaded: 6

Clown beetles of the genus Eutriptus Wollaston, 1862 (Coleoptera: Histeridae) in Eocene Baltic amber

Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic; Museum of Eastern Bohemia in Hradec Králové, Eliščino nábřeží 465, 500 03 Hradec Králové 3, Czech Republic
Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, A. Nevskogo, 14, 236016 Kaliningrad, Russia
Charles University, Faculty of Science, Department of Zoology, Viničná 7, 12800 Prague 2, Czech Republic
Coleoptera Histeridae

Abstract

Eutriptus Wollaston, 1862 is a small histerid genus currently discontinuously distributed from the Canary Islands to the Himalayas. According to the last revision (Lackner & Kapler, 2007), the Recent fauna includes four valid species. As characterized by Lackner & Kapler (2007), the genus can be distinguished from the very similar and widely distributed in tropical Africa and South-eastern Asia genus Diplostix Bickhardt, 1921 in the presence of longitudinal meso-metasternal striae on the metasternum.

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