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
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Zootaxa
2021
2021-04-27
4965
1
142
166
journal article
7045
10.11646/zootaxa.4965.1.7
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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.