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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 3: 12 Jul. 2021
Type: Article
Published: 2021-07-12
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.7
Page range: 279-284
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The first described darkling beetle of the tribe Metaclisini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev Str. 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia. Dagestan State University, 43a M. Gadzhiev Str., Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia
Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St., Regina, SK, S4P 4W7, Canada. Biology Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada. Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA.
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības iela 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
Tenebrioninae palaeontology new taxa Cenozoic Paleogene fossil resin Coleoptera

Abstract

The description of an extinct species of Metaclisa Jacquelin du Val, 1861 (Tenebrionidae) is presented. This genus and the tribe Metaclisini are recorded as fossils for the first time, from Eocene Baltic amber. The new species Metaclisa ottoi sp. nov. belongs to the subgenus Trichometaclisa subgen. nov. and differs from all other Metaclisini in possessing short, fine recumbent setation on the pronotum and elytra; in addition, the prosternal process in Metaclisa ottoi sp. nov. is roundly bent down and weakly projected behind the procoxae, which differs from extant species.

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