Current issue: Volume 21, No. 2 (2021)
Cathartosilvanus perkovskyi sp. nov. - first record of Silvanidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Eocene Rovno amber
Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs
Alekseev V.I., Bukejs A. 2021. Cathartosilvanus perkovskyi sp. nov. - first record of Silvanidae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Eocene Rovno amber. Baltic J. Coleopterol., 21 (1): 19 - 24.
A new fossil species of the silvanid flat bark beetle genus Cathartosilvanus Grouvelle is described and illustrated from Upper Eocene Rovno amber. Cathartosilvanus perkovskyi sp. nov. resembles extant C. opaculus (LeConte, 1854) and differs from extinct congeners from Baltic amber in pronotal lateral sides crenulate, pronotum as long as wide, and elytral intervals partially convex. It is the first report of Silvanidae from this Lagerstätte.
KeyWords : palaeocoleopterology, silvanid flat bark beetles, new species, Cenozoic, Paleogene, fossil resin
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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