Published December 31, 2017 | Version v1
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Micridium groehni Polilov & Perkovsky 2004

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Description

Micridium groehni Polilov & Perkovsky 2004

Described on the basis of a single specimen from Baltic amber (Polilov & Perkovsky 2004). The photographs and line drawings included in the paper do not show the mesoventral carinae defining the genus Micridium as described here and the two depressions on the pronotum are rounded and not linear.

Notes

Published as part of Darby, Michael, 2017, Taxonomic review of the genera Micridium Motschulsky, 1869 and Micridina Johnson, 1969 (Coleoptera: Ptiliidae) with eleven new species including the first records from South America and Madagascar, pp. 233-254 in Zootaxa 4242 (2) on page 242, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4242.2.2, http://zenodo.org/record/376374

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Biodiversity

Family
Ptiliidae
Genus
Micridium
Kingdom
Animalia
Order
Coleoptera
Phylum
Arthropoda
Scientific name authorship
Polilov & Perkovsky
Species
groehni
Taxon rank
species
Taxonomic concept label
Micridium groehni Polilov, 2004 sec. Darby, 2017

References

  • Polilov, A. A. & Perkovsky, E. E. (2004) New species of Late Eocene feather - winged beetles (Coleoptera, Ptiliidae) from the Rovno and Baltic Amber [in Russian]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2004 (6), 73 - 77. [English translation in Paleontological Journal, 38, (6), 664 - 668]