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Issue: Vol. 4966 No. 4: 5 May 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-05-05
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4966.4.5
Page range: 469–475
Abstract views: 124
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A new species of Eusphalerum Kraatz, 1857 from the Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Omaliinae)

Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienibas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienibas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia
Coleoptera Eusphalerini taxonomy new species fossil micro-CT

Abstract

A new species of the genus Eusphalerum Kraatz, 1857 (Omaliinae) from the Eocene Baltic amber is described and illustrated: Eu. bukejsi Shavrin, sp.n. The specimen was studied using X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT), to obtain images of the habitus, body parts and aedeagus. Based on the shape of the aedeagus, it was compared with East Asian species of pollens and japonicum groups.

 

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