A new species ofAiraphilus Redtenbacher and new record of fossil Silvanidae (Coleoptera) from Eocene Baltic amber of the Sambian Peninsula

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Dec 30, 2019
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Vol. 19 No. 2 (2019)
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Vitalii Alekseev
Alekseev V.I., Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997, Russian Federation, Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii square 1, Kaliningrad, 236016, Russian Federation
Andris Bukejs
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia
David Cooper
Cooper D.M.L., Department of Anatomy Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Rd, Saskatoon, S7N 5E5, SK, Canada
Gavin King
King G.A., Department of Anatomy Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Saskatchewan, 107 Wiggins Rd, Saskatoon, S7N 5E5, SK, Canada
Ryan McKellar
McKellar R.C., Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St, Regina, S4P 4W7, SK, Canada, Biology Department, University of Regina, Regina, S4S 0A2, SK, Canada, Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, 66045, KS, United States

Keywords : Cucujoidea, palaeontology, Cenozoic, Tertiary, fossil resin, SR X-ray micro-CT
Abstract
A new fossil species of the silvanid flat bark beetle, Airaphilus simulacrum Alekseev, Bukejs et McKellar sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) is illustrated and described based on two specimens from Eocene Baltic amber. A second specimen of the confamilial fossil taxon Mistran ot Alekseev et Bukejs, 2016 is reported and imaged using synchrotron X-ray micro-CT observations.

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