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The new genus and new species of seed beetles (Copeoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) Electrocaryedon poinari gen. et sp. nov. are described from the Late Eocene Baltic amber. This new genus differs from the genus Caryedon Schoenherr, 1823 in the completely separate procoxal cavities, not shortened lateral carina on pronotum, and wider body with sparse setae.
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Original Russian Text © A.A. Legalov, 2016, published in Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal, 2016, No. 1, pp. 69–72.
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Legalov, A.A. A new genus of seed beetles (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Bruchinae) in Baltic amber. Paleontol. J. 50, 73–77 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030116010056
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