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Issue: Vol. 5458 No. 2: 28 May 2024
Type: Article
Published: 2024-05-28
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.6
Page range: 275-285
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Ceratonotha, a new erotylid genus (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) from late Eocene amber

Zoological Museum; Moscow State University; ul. Bol’shaya Nikitskaya 6; Moscow; 125009 Russia
A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute; Russian Academy of Sciences; Moscow 117647; Russia; Paleontological Laboratory; Cherepovets State University; Cherepovets 162600; Russia
Natural History Museum of Denmark; Universitetsparken 15; Copenhagen 2100; Denmark
Coleoptera Cycadales Ceratozamia pollination Danish amber Baltic amber

Abstract

Ceratonotha danica gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus and species of Erotylidae (Coleoptera), is described and illustrated from Eocene Danish amber. Ceratonotha is morphologically similar to fossil erotylids from European amber, differing from them mainly in the length of the 4th tarsomere. Cycadophila mumia Alekseev & Bukejs, 2017, described from Baltic amber, belongs in this new genus and is here transferred, becoming Ceratonotha mumia (Alekseev & Bukejs) comb. nov..

 

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