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Issue: Vol. 4337 No. 1: 17 Oct. 2017
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2017-10-17
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4337.1.8
Page range: 141–145
Abstract views: 59
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A new species of minute beetle (Coleoptera: Clambidae) from Baltic amber (Paleogene, Eocene)

Department of Zootechny, Kaliningrad State Technical University, Sovetsky avenue 1. 236000, Kaliningrad, Russia.
Coleoptera Clambidae

Abstract

A new species of Clambidae, Clambus helheimricus sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Baltic amber. A list of the smallest beetles described from this Lagerstätte is provided.

 

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