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A New Species of the Genus Homocloeus Jordan (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) in Miocene Mexican Amber

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A new species, Homocloeuspopovi sp. nov., is described from Miocene Mexican amber. The new species is similar to H. puncticollis but differs in having the rostrum without a middle carina, and in the transverse carina more curved to the base of the elytra, flattened elytral interstriae, and interstria 5 with a tubercle in the apical quarter. This is the first record of the genus Homocloeus as a fossil.

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We are grateful to Andrew Ross (National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK) for access to the material and to D.E. Shcherbakov (Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences) for valuable comments.

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    A. A. Legalov

  2. Altai State University, 656049, Barnaul, Russia

    A. A. Legalov

  3. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01030, Kyiv, Ukraine

    V. Yu. Nazarenko & E. E. Perkovsky

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Legalov, A.A., Nazarenko, V.Y. & Perkovsky, E.E. A New Species of the Genus Homocloeus Jordan (Coleoptera: Anthribidae) in Miocene Mexican Amber. Paleontol. J. 53, 56–61 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119010040

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