A description ofQuasianisoxya curonensis gen. et sp. nov.(Coleoptera: Melandryidae) from Baltic amber
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taxonomy, Tertiary, Eocene amber, false darkling beetles, fossil
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New extinct monotypic genus of the subfamily Melandryinae Leach, 1815 is described and illustrated on the base of an inclusion in Baltic amber. The new taxon is compared with the morphologically close extant and fossil ones. Quasianisoxya gen.nov. is characterized by small body size, long antennae, bilobed penultimate tarsomeres, transverse and broadest at base pronotum, contiguous procoxae.
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