Articles | Volume 22, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-111-2019
https://doi.org/10.5194/fr-22-111-2019
Research article
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07 Nov 2019
Research article |  | 07 Nov 2019

The second fossil species of Cathartosilvanus (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea: Silvanidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

Vitalii I. Alekseev, Andris Bukejs, and Ryan C. McKellar

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In this paper we describe a new fossil species of the silvanid flat bark beetle from Baltic amber. The new beetle species from European Eocene belongs to the genus living only in the New World now. Possible, the studied specimen is an adult beetle entrapped in resin shortly after moulting.
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