<documentid="F4B01DE28DD5031FE734FE2AC379BA89"ID-DOI="10.59893/bjc.23(2).009"ID-ISSN="1407-8619"ID-Zenodo-Dep="13203106"IM.bibliography_approvedBy="felipe"IM.illustrations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.materialsCitations_approvedBy="felipe"IM.metadata_approvedBy="felipe"IM.taxonomicNames_approvedBy="felipe"IM.treatments_approvedBy="felipe"checkinTime="1722657248871"checkinUser="felipe"docAuthor="Sarker, Subir & Talukder, Saranika"docDate="2023"docId="038C9D1E0462FFDCFD10FDD382BD7770"docLanguage="en"docName="BalticJColeopterol.23.2.233-239.pdf"docOrigin="Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 23 (2)"docSource="http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/mra.00329-24"docStyle="DocumentStyle:514B3A4252435B0AFD496C900C6D7572.1:BalticJColeop.2023-.journal_article"docStyleId="514B3A4252435B0AFD496C900C6D7572"docStyleName="BalticJColeop.2023-.journal_article"docStyleVersion="1"docTitle="Malthininae Kiesenwetter 1852"docType="treatment"docVersion="2"lastPageNumber="239"masterDocId="FFB5E5660460FFDFFFABFFD081247205"masterDocTitle="Two new taxa of fossil Cantharidae from Baltic amber"masterLastPageNumber="239"masterPageNumber="233"pageNumber="233"updateTime="1722696919189"updateUser="ExternalLinkService"zenodo-license-document="CC-BY-NC-4.0">
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235 constricted posteriorly. It is similar only to the extinct
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, from which it differs in the pronotum not narrower anteriorly, the elytra without impressed punctuation and the different colour (
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show head strongly restricted behind eyes and dotted elytra (
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;
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<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFFD9FD8F8000718E"blockId="3.[114,593,515,1643]"pageId="3">Head almost completely exposed, neck gradually constricted posteriorly, equipped with several long setae and impressed small punctation. Eyes large, convex, rounded, inserted in the lateral-upper part of head. Mandibles falciform. Maxillary palps 4- segmented; last palpomere globularelongated and apically pointed. Labial palps 3-segmented; last palpomere globular and apically pointed.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFFD9FC42800076FE"blockId="3.[114,593,515,1643]"pageId="3">Antennae 11-segmented, filiform, relatively short, surpassing the elytral half, covered with several setae; scape elongated, club-shaped; antennomere II short; antennomeres III-IV sub-equal, elongated, rather robust; antennomeres V-VII sub-equal, slightly longer than previous ones; antennomere VIII longer and thinner than previous ones; antennomeres IX-X sub-equal, shorter and very slightly sturdier than previous one; antennomere XI elongated, rounded at apex.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFFD9FAD18064746E"blockId="3.[114,593,515,1643]"pageId="3">Pronotum rectangular, slightly longer than wide, slightly narrower than head; apical margin very slightly rounded and not bordered; anterior corners rounded; sides straight and strongly bordered; basal margin straight and strongly bordered; posterior corners almost acute; surface irregular, gibbous on the basal part and concave near the apical margin, equipped with some long setae, without punctation. Scutellum triangular, wide at base, pointed apically, with rounded apex.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFFD9F97683F57387"blockId="3.[114,154,1702,1726]"lastBlockId="3.[624,1103,178,968]"pageId="3">236 Elytra not particularly short, revealing the last abdominal segment uncovered, slightly wider than pronotum, parallel-sided, not dehiscent, rounded at apex; surface rather wrinkled, covered with several long setae and without punctation. Hind wings as long as elytra.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFDDBFE5882857115"blockId="3.[624,1103,178,968]"pageId="3">Metasternum with slightly rounded posterior margin, covered with dispersed short setae and very shallow punctation. Sternites transverse, wide, pubescent. Last tergite and last sternite wide and rounded. Legs robust, pubescent; coxae elongated, stout, enlarged at base; trochanters elongated, rounded at apex; femora enlarged, curved in the middle; tibiae cylindrical and thin, equipped with an apical spur, protibiae shorter than profemora, meso- and metatibiae longer than meso- and metafemora.</paragraph>
<paragraphid="8B9A2C080463FFDCFDDBFCC782CA71CD"blockId="3.[624,1103,178,968]"pageId="3">Tarsi 5-segmented, pubescent; tarsomere I elongated; tarsomere II about 1.4 times shorter than tarsomere I; tarsomere III shorter than previous one; tarsomere IV bilobed; tarsomere V short, thin, curved; claws simple, robust, without tooth.</paragraph>