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- Title
Clypastraea primainterpares sp. nov. - the first fossil minute hooded beetle (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea: Corylophidae) from Baltic amber (Eocene, Tertiary).
- Authors
Alekseev, Vitalii I.
- Abstract
A new minute hooded beetle species identified as representative of the orientalis group of the genus Clypastraea Haldeman, 1842 is described and illustrated from Baltic amber. This finding proofs the existence and distribution of this genus in the Eocene at least in the Fennosarmatian part of Laurasia. Three additional specimens of Corylophinae are reported from Baltic and Bitterfeld ambers.
- Subjects
BITTERFELD (Germany); LADYBUGS; INSECT physiology; BEETLE anatomy; GEOGRAPHICAL distribution of insects
- Publication
Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 2016, Vol 16, Issue 1, p21
- ISSN
1407-8619
- Publication type
Article