Fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula: new genus, six new species, new records and key to described taxa Author Alekseev, Vitalii Igorevich 0000-0003-4390-5443 Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, 117997 Moscow, Russia. alekseew 0802 @ yahoo. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0003 - 4390 - 5443 & Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii square 1, Kaliningrad 236016, Russia alekseew0802@yahoo.com Author Bukejs, Andris 0000-0001-7165-3023 Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, Daugavpils LV- 5401, Latvia. carabidae @ inbox. lv; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7165 - 3023 carabidae@inbox.lv text Zootaxa 2021 2021-04-27 4965 1 142 166 journal article 7045 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.1.7 0d69081f-0cf4-4be6-92a6-5a785e5ee98e 1175-5326 4723237 1F5BE28F-C8B5-47FF-8A3F-68B5BC40BD6F Genus Microscapha LeConte, 1866 Note. The specimen under consideration possesses main characters of the tribe Orchesiini : (1) procoxae separated by prosternal process, and (2) jumping hind legs with metacoxae large, metatibia shorter than metatarsomere 1, and metatibial spurs longer than one-half length of metatarsomere 1. The specimen belongs to the genus Microscapha based on the combination of the following characters: (1) visible scutellar shield, (2) antennae short, with 3-segmented club, (3) antennomere 3 much shorter and narrower than antennomere 2, (4) pronotum without impressions, (5) metaventrite with median longitudinal depression, and (6) sutural stria well-developed.