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 Orchesia turkini Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012 Material examined. One specimen with collection number MMO 1/43 7657/133 [ MWO ]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen partially obscured by milky opacity (left and ventral sides). Body length of the specimen is 3.5 mm . The beetle inclusion is preserved in a small-sized, yellow-orange, flat, polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 16×11× 2.5 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are absent. One specimen with collection number MMO 1/22 4730/258 [ MWO ]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen. Body length of the specimen is 3.6 mm . The beetle inclusion is preserved in a small-sized, orange, flat, polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 16×12× 2 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are absent. One specimen with collection number 7862 [ CAG ]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen. Syninclusions are represented by few stellate fagacean trichomes and numerous detrital particles.