A new genus of the family Mycetophagidae (Coleoptera) from Eocene Danish amber
Author
Legalov, Andrei A.
Institute of Systematics and Ecology of Animals, SB RAS, Frunze Street 11, Novosibirsk, 630091, Russia; & Altai State University, Lenina Street 61, Barnaul, 656049, Russia. & Tomsk State University, Lenina Prospekt 36, 634050 Tomsk, Russia;
Author
Vasilenko, Dmitry V.
0000-0002-4827-7290
Paleontological Laboratory, Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets 162600, Russia. & Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 117647 Russia. E-mail: vasilenko @ paleo. ru; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 4827 - 7290
Author
Perkovsky, Evgeny E.
0000-0002-7959-4379
Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen, Denmark; E-mail: perkovsk @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0002 - 7959 - 4379 Corresponding author. E-mail: fossilweevils @ gmail. com; https: // orcid. org / 0000 - 0001 - 7347 - 8169
text
Ecologica Montenegrina
2024
2024-12-02
80
86
93
https://doi.org/10.37828/em.2024.80.8
journal article
10.37828/em.2024.80.8
2336-9744
14653220
D5A27151-5F0B-47AF-B7D3-E8DE9A11240D
Genus
Aggerbille
Legalov et Perkovsky
,
gen. nov.
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Type
species.
Aggerbille havai
Legalov et Perkovsky
,
sp. nov.
Etymology.
From the Agger locality and Danish ‘bille’ beetle.
Diagnosis.
Body small, oblong-oval, covered with dark long decumbent setae; head distinctly narrower than greatest pronotal width; eyes coarsely faceted; antennae slightly reaching hind angles of pronotum; antennomeres 9 and 10 more than two times as long as wide, antennal club three-segmented; pronotum widest at base, with distinct lateral carinae; posterior pronotal angles obtuse, not embracing elytral humeri; metacoxal length less than half its width; elytra without distinct puncture rows; mesoventrite flattened; tarsal formula 3-4-4.
Comparison.
The new genus differs from the Western Palaearctic genus
Triphyllus
Dejean, 1821
by its smaller body size, antennomeres 9 and 10 longer than wide, pronotum more strongly narrowed toward the apex, and shorter elytra; from the North American genus
Neotriphyllus
Lawrence, Escalona, Leschen & Ślipiński,
2014
in the smaller body size, its pronotum more strongly narrowed towards the apex, its mesoventrite flattened, covered with dark and long decumbent setae. It is distinguished from the genus
Litargus
by the posterior pronotal angles obtuse, not embracing the elytral humeri. The new genus differs from the Eocene
Crowsonium
by its pronotum being broadest at the base, and by its distinct antennal club consisting of three segments.