Revision of Mesozoic fossils of the helophorid lineage of the superfamily Hydrophiloidea (Coleoptera: Polyphaga)
Author
Fikáček, Martin
Department of Entomology, National Museum, Kunratice 1, CZ- 148 00 Praha 4, Czech Republic; e-mail: mfikacek @ gmail. com & Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic; e-mail: jprokop @ natur. cuni. cz
Author
Prokin, Alexander
Papanin Institute for Inland Water Biology, Russian Academy of Science, Borok, Russia; e-mail: prokina @ mail. ru & Voronezh State University, Research-Educational Centre “ Venevitinovo ”, Voronezh, Russia
Author
Angus, Robert B.
Department of Entomology, The Natural History Museum, London, UK; e-mail: r. angus @ rhul. ac. uk
Author
Pono, Alexander
Author
Marenko
Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; e-mail: aponom @ paleo. ru
Author
Yue, Yanli
School of Life Science, Ningxia University, Ningxia, China; e-mail: yueyanli 0407 @ yahoo. cn
Author
Ren, Dong
Author
Prokop, Jakub
Department of Zoology, Faculty of Science, Charles University in Prague, Viničná 7, CZ- 128 44 Praha 2, Czech Republic; e-mail: jprokop @ natur. cuni. cz
text
Acta Entomologica Musei Nationalis Pragae
2012
2012-06-30
52
1
89
127
journal article
10.5281/zenodo.5330604
0374-1036
5330604
†
Helophorus
(
Mesosperchus
)
inceptivus
sp. nov.
(
Figs. 27
,
81–82
,
107, 111
)
Type
locality and age.
Mongolia
,
Gobi-Altai Province
, SE Ajbogd-uul Range, S of Mount Shar-Teg, fossil site Shar-Teg, exposure 442/2; Shar-Teg sequence, Late Jurassic, Tithonian, ca. 150–145 mya (
GUBIN
& SINITZA 1996
;
RASNITSYN & ZHERIKHIN 2002
;
YAN &
ZHANG
2010
).
Material examined
(
1 spec.
).
HOLOTYPE
: PIN 4270/1008 (piece only).
Description.
Adult
:
Body rather wide, body length
3.9 mm
. Frons partly bearing weak granulation, gula wide, antenna with three-segmented antennal club. Pronotum transverse, with simply arcuate lateral margins and slightly angulate posterior margin; surface bearing five longitudinal grooves, all pronotal intervals with well-developed (through mostly only weakly preserved) granulation; anterolateral corners of pronotum probably not projecting. Prothoracic antennal grooves probably present. Elytron with 10 series of punctures, all series finely impressed; elytral intervals flat. Mesocoxal cavities very narrowly separated from each other, metaventrite slightly longer than mesoventrite. Mesotibia with several longitudinal series of spines, bearing few larger spines on distal margin; abdomen with five ventrites.