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Issue: Vol. 8 No. 2: April 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-04-29
DOI: 10.11646/palaeoentomology.8.2.7
Page range: 166-173
Abstract views: 8
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The second species of Lobanoviella Kirejtshuk & Reid, 2021 (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae) in Eocene amber

Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nevskogo str.14, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia
Zoological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Universitetskaya Emb. 1, St. Petersburg 199034, Russia
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia
Chrysomeloidea Palophaginae paleodiversity Paleogene fossil resin new species Coleoptera Megalopodidae

Abstract

A new extinct species of Palophaginae (Coleoptera: Megalopodidae), Lobanoviella lethebibens sp. nov., is described and illustrated based on inclusions in Eocene Baltic and Rovno ambers. This second species of the genus known from the European palaeofaunas can be distinguished by the larger and wider body, by the pronotal shape, elytral punctures arranged in regular longitudinal rows and lateral subvertical stripes of the elytral slopes much wider and widening to apices.

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