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Issue: Vol. 2239 No. 1: 24 Sep. 2009
Type: Articles
Published: 2009-09-24
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.2239.1.5
Page range: 55–61
Abstract views: 42
PDF downloaded: 3

Fossil carabids from Baltic amber – I –A new species of the genus Calathus Bonelli, 1810(Coleoptera: Carabidae: Pterostichinae)

Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Facultad de Biología. Universidad de Alcalá. E-28871 Alcalá de Henares. Madrid. Spain
Departamento de Zoología y Antropología Física. Facultad de Biología. Universidad Complutense. E-28040 Madrid. Spain
Coleoptera Arthropoda Hexapoda taxonomy palaeoentomology

Abstract

In this paper a new species of fossil ground-beetle, Calathus elpis n. sp. (Coleoptera, Carabidae) preserved in a piece of Baltic amber (Eocene) is described. A comparison with extant fauna is made, and paleobiology of the species is studied.

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