First fossil Lamprosomatinae leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic amber

Andris Bukejs; Konstantin Nadein

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.9

First fossil Lamprosomatinae leaf beetles (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) with descriptions of new genera and species from Baltic amber

Zootaxa. 2015 Mar 11;3931(1):127-39. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.9.

Authors

Andris Bukejs¹, Konstantin Nadein²

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienības 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.; Email: carabidae@inbox.lv.
² Department of General and Applied Entomology, Institute of Zoology (Schmalhausen), National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnitskogo st. 15, Kiev 01601, Ukraine.; Email: luperus@mail.ru.

PMID: 25781819
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3931.1.9

Abstract

In the current paper the first fossil representatives of leaf-beetles from the subfamily Lamprosomatinae (Coleoptera: Chrysomelidae) are described and illustrated from Upper Eocene Baltic amber: Succinoomorphus warchalowskii gen. et sp. nov., Archelamprosomius balticus gen. et sp. nov., and Archelamprosomius kirejtshuki sp. nov. A key to fossil Lamprosomatinae is provided.

MeSH terms

Amber
Animals
Coleoptera / anatomy & histology*
Coleoptera / classification
Fossils / anatomy & histology*

Substances

Amber