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Issue: Vol. 4500 No. 1: 15 Oct. 2018
Type: Article
Published: 2018-10-15
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4500.1.10
Page range: 146–150
Abstract views: 61
PDF downloaded: 4

A new fossil species of Euroleptochromus Jałoszyński (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Department of Biology, College of Life and Environmental Sciences, Shanghai Normal University, Shanghai 200234, P. R. China
CAS Key Laboratory of Economic Stratigraphy and Palaeogeography, Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, and Center for Excellence in Life and Paleoenvironment, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Nanjing 210008, China School of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Life Sciences Building, Tyndall Avenue, Bristol BS8 1TQ, UK
Coleoptera fossil Mastigitae Leptochromini Euroleptochromus new species Eocene Baltic amber

Abstract

A new species of the extinct scydmaenine genus Euroleptochromus Jałoszyński (Mastigitae: Leptochromini), E. tuberculatus Yin & Cai, sp. nov., is described from Eocene Baltic amber. It can be separated from the two previously known congeners by the different proportions of the body parts and spination of the profemur, and more importantly, lack of an elongate postgenal process of the head. Our finding demonstrates for the first time a notable variability of the postgenal structures within Euroleptochromus.

 

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