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Based on a well-preserved specimen in Eocene Rovno amber, a new species Serropalpus groehni sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) is described and illustrated.
The new species differs from extinct congeners in having longer metatibial spur, weakly notched apex of mesosternal process, discernible elytral furrows, and outer edges of meso- and metatibiae with 8–9 oblique rows of bristles. An updated key to fossil Serropalpus species, known from Baltic and Rovno ambers, is also provided.
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