A new species and a key to Isomira Mulsant, 1856 (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from Eocene Baltic amber
Author
Nabozhenko, M. V.
Author
Bukejs, A.
text
Caucasian Entomological Bulletin
2021
Caucas. entomol. bull.
2021-03-12
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http://dx.doi.org/10.23885/181433262021171-5156
journal article
10.23885/181433262021171-5156
2713-1785
Menephiloides
Fujiyama, 1973
Type
species:
Menephiloides minensis
Fujiyama, 1973
by original designation [
Fujiyama, 1973: 378
]. Monotypic genus.
Type
stratum.
Omine
,
Japan
,
Hazegatani
coal mine,
Monomoki Formation
,
Carnian
,
Upper Triassic
(235–221.5 Ma)
.
This genus was originally included under question in the family
Tenebrionidae
.
Fujiyama [1973]
tried to compare the single elytron of
M. minensis
with those in
Menephilus
Mulsant, 1854
(Stenochiinae: Cnodalonini) and
Tenebrio
Linnaeus, 1758
(Tenebrioninae: Tenebrionini). In fact, the elytron of this species has 10 striae without scutellary striole, which is uncharacteristic for
Tenebrionidae
.
Menephiloides minensis
specially was not included in the fossil records [Kirejtshuk at al., 2008;
Kirejtshuk, Ponomarenko, 2018
; Nabozhenko, 2019]. However
Bao and Antunes-Carvalho [2020]
still wrote that it is
Tenebrionidae
. Here we propose to interpret
Menephiloides minensis
as
Coleoptera
incertae sedis
.