BJC - Baltic Journal of Coleopterology

Baltic Journal of Coleopterology

XV^th Symposium of Polish Carabidologists
Tatra National Park 04-07.06.2017

Current issue: Volume 20, No. 2 (2020)

A new genus of Hallomeninae Gistel, 1848 (Coleoptera: Ttenebrionoidae: Tetatomidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs

Alekseev V.I., Bukejs A. 2020. A new genus of Hallomeninae Gistel, 1848 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Tetratomidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Baltic J. Coleopterol., 20 (2): 189 - 195.

A new species and genus of polypore fungus beetle, Elasontagius dorbnickensis gen. et sp. nov., is described and illustrated, representing the second formally described species of Tetratomidae from Eocene Baltic amber. This new extinct polypore fungus beetle belongs to the subfamily Hallomeninae and clearly differs from other representatives in absence of pronotal basal impressions and strongly transverse scutellum.

KeyWords : paleoentomology, polypore fungus beetles, fossil resin, Tertiary

Vitalii I. Alekseev. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, 117997 Moscow, Russia. e-mail: alekseew0802@yahoo.com
Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii square 1, Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia
Andris Bukejs. Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia. e-mail: carabidae@inbox.lv

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