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 Serropalpus vivax Alekseev, 2014 Material examined. One specimen with collection number 4438/14 [ KRAM ]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen partially obscured by cracks and milky opacity (forebody). Body length of the specimen is 7.6 mm . The beetle inclusion is preserved in a medium-sized, yellow, irregular and partially polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 19×16× 10 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are absent. One specimen with collection number MMO 1/22 4730/254 [ MWO ]. Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, visible from right side complete specimen, partially obscured by layered structure of the amber, cracks and milky opacity. Body length of the specimen is 7.4 mm . The beetle inclusion is preserved in a medium-sized, yellow, polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 20×12× 4 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are represented by one stellate fagacean trichome.