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Issue: Vol. 9 No. 2: 29 Apr. 2026
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2026-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.9.2.1
Page range: 109-112
Abstract views: 71
PDF downloaded: 6

Reinterpretation of “Oxyporus” impressus Piton, 1940 from the Paleocene of Menat, France with the description of Menatomium gen. nov. (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae)

Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Berlin, Germany
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark
Menat Staphylinidae Paleocene Oxytelinae Coleoptera RTI

Abstract

Rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae) are known since at least the Jurassic period (Chatzimanolis, 2018). However, among the approximately 67,000 described extant species of rove beetles only about 460 fossil species have been named and described (Newton, 2022), and even lesser number of extinct species are correctly identified according to the standards of modern taxonomy. For example, it turned out that Oxyporus impressus Piton, 1940 from the middle Paleocene of Menat, France clearly does not belong to Oxyporinae as originally proposed.

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