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Issue: Vol. 4144 No. 1: 26 Jul. 2016
Type: Article
Published: 2016-07-26
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4144.1.5
Page range: 101–108
Abstract views: 81
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New fossil genus of Silvanidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene)

Department of Zootechny, FGBOU VO “Kaliningrad State Technical University”, Sovetsky av. 1. 236000 Kaliningrad, Russia.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības Str. 13, Daugavpils, Latvia.
Coleoptera taxonomy palaeontology Silvaninae Mistran ot fossil resin

Abstract

The fossil silvanid beetle Mistran ot gen. et sp. nov. is described from Baltic amber. The new taxon is illustrated and compared with morphologically close extant and fossil taxa. A checklist of fossil Silvanidae is provided.

 

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