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Type: Article
Published: 2014-01-24
Page range: 391–400
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Glesirhanis bercioi, a new genus and species from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) with a checklist and nomenclatural notes regarding fossil Endomychidae

Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 165, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.
Department of Zootechny, Kaliningrad State Technical University, Sovetsky av. 1. 236000, Kaliningrad, Russia.
new genus new species new status Coleoptera Endomychidae Leiestinae Baltic amber Tertiary Eocene key checklist fossil

Abstract

A new genus and species of handsome fungus beetle, Glesirhanis bercioi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) is described from Baltic amber. The newly described genus is compared with all known extant and extinct genera of the subfamily. A key to the genera of Leiestinae including fossils and a checklist of fossil Endomychidae are provided. The status of two taxa previously placed in Endomychidae, Palaeoendomychus gymnus Zhang and Tetrameropsis mesozoica Kirejtshuk & Azar, is discussed, and a new status for the latter, elevating it to the family-level as Tetrameropseidae status nov., is proposed.