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New Cupedids (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cupedidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Buryatia

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Two new species of cupedids (Notocupes khasurtyiensis sp. nov. and Gracilicupes minimus sp. nov.; Coleoptera, Cupedidae) are described from the Lower Cretaceous of Khasurty, Transbaikalia. This is the first discovery of the genus Gracilicupes in Russia, previously known only from the Middle Jurassic of China. New species are described from part and counterpart prints of nearly complete beetles.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The author is grateful to A.G. Ponomarenko and E.V. Yan for discussing the results of the work and for valuable comments on the text of the paper, A.P. Rasnitsyn for advice on working with the material, D.E. Shcherbakov and M.M. Tarasenkova for help in working with drawings.

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This study was supported by the Russian Foundation for Basic Research, project no. 16-04-01498 and the program of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences, no. 30 “Evolution of the Organic World and Planetary Processes.”

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Strelnikova, O.D. New Cupedids (Insecta: Coleoptera, Cupedidae) from the Lower Cretaceous of Buryatia. Paleontol. J. 53, 292–299 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030119030146

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