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A new species of Micromalthidae (Coleoptera) from the Rovno amber: 1. Adult morphology

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Micromalthus priabonicus sp. nov. from the Late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine) is described. The new species is readily distinguished from M. eocenicus Kirejtshuk et al., 2010 from the Early Eocene amber of Oise in France by the shorter body, unequal length of antennomeres 3 and 4, ovate terminal antennomere, less transverse head, transverse scutellum, and by the considerably shortened adsutural elytral margin.

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  1. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, ul. Bogdana Khmel’nitskogo 15, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine

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Original Russian Text © E.E. Perkovsky, 2016, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 3, pp. 83–87.

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Perkovsky, E.E. A new species of Micromalthidae (Coleoptera) from the Rovno amber: 1. Adult morphology. Paleontol. J. 50, 293–296 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116030047

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