A new fossil Eurypinae genus and sexual dimorphism in the representatives of Omineus (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) from Tertiary amber of Europe

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作者
Alekseev, Vitalii Igorevich [1 ,2 ]
Bukejs, Andris [3 ]
Pollock, Darren Andrew [4 ]
机构
[1] Russian Acad Sci, Shirshov Inst Oceanol, Nahimovskiy Prospekt 36, Moscow 117997, Russia
[2] Kaliningrad Reg Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii Sq 1, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia
[3] Daugavpils Univ, Inst Life Sci & Technol, Vienibas 13, LV-5401 Daugavpils, Latvia
[4] Eastern New Mexico Univ, Dept Biol, Portales, NM 88130 USA
关键词
beetles; palaeontology; Paleogene; fossil resin; new taxa; X-ray micro-CT; EOCENE BALTIC AMBER; TENEBRIONOIDEA; GENERA;
D O I
10.11646/zootaxa.4820.3.8
中图分类号
Q95 [动物学];
学科分类号
071002 ;
摘要
Europoeurypus inglaeso gen. et sp. nov. is described from Eocene Baltic amber found on the Sambian Peninsula, Kaliningrad Region, Russia. Four additional specimens of mycterid beetles from collections of Baltic amber are reported. The secondary sexual characters and sexual dimorphism in the Eocene representatives of the genus Omineus Lewis, 1895 are documented for the first time and examined using X-ray micro-computed tomography (mu CT). The studied Omineus male specimens were attributed to the fossil species Omineus febribilis Alekseev, Pollock & Bukejs, 2019. A key to fossil species of Eurypinae from Eocene ambers is provided and several aspects of the biogeography of the subfamily Eurypinae are discussed.
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页码:551 / 562
页数:12
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