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A new fossil species of Attagenus Latreille (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) in Rovno and Baltic ambers, with a brief review of known fossil beetles from the Rovno amber Lagerstätte
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University,
Vienības 13, Daugavpils, 5401, Latvia
Jiří Háva
Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University,
Vienības 13, Daugavpils, 5401, Latvia
Private Entomological Laboratory and Collection, Rýznerova 37,
252 62 Únětice u Prahy, Prague-West District, Czech Republic
Vitalii I. Alekseev
Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia
Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii Square 1,
Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia
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Short summary
New fossil species of skin beetles (Dermestidae) from two bioinclusions in Eocene ambers (Baltic and Rovno) are described and compared with extinct and extant congeners. The affinity of the Rovno and Baltic amber varieties is briefly reviewed. The checklist of the described beetles (57 species) from Rovno amber is compiled and presented for the first time.
New fossil species of skin beetles (Dermestidae) from two bioinclusions in Eocene ambers (Baltic...
