The first species of the family Tetratomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber

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Dec 30, 2013
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Vol. 13 No. 2 (2013)
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Vitaly Alekseev
Alekseev V.I., Department of Zootechny, Kaliningrad State Technical University, 236000 Kaliningrad, Sovetsky av. 1, Russian Federation

Keywords : Eocene, new exticnt species, polypore fungus beetles, Tetratoma nikitskyi.
Abstract
The first representative of the family Tetratomidae Billberg, 1820 is described from Eocene Baltic amber. Tetratoma nikitskyi sp. nov. is assigned to subgenus Abstrulia and differs from all known species of the subgenus by the structure of the antennae and prothorax.

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