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Olibrolitus, New Genus of Shining Flower Beetles (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Phalacridae) from Bitterfeld and Baltic Amber

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A new monotypic genus, Olibrolitus gen. nov. (type species Olibrolituskatyae sp. nov.), is described from Upper Eocene amber. The new genus Olibrolitus does not resemble any extant group of genera of Phalacridae. Several modern genera have been reported and the genus Neolitochropus was recently described from Eocene amber, but the new genus Olibrolitus is not close to Neolitochropus, and it is so far difficult to suggest a connection with any extant genera. The new genus differs from other genera of the family by the absence of elytral striae and the tarsus morphology (the first metatarsomere is longer than the second, articulated loosely).

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

We are grateful to Christel and Hans Werner Hoffeins (Hamburg, Germany) for providing material for study. We thank Vitaly Yu. Nazarenko (I.I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Kiev) for taking photographs of type specimens.

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This work was partially supported by a research grant of the Zoological Museum of Moscow State University (AAAA-A16-116021660077-3).

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  1. Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, 125009, Moscow, Russia

    G. Yu. Lyubarsky

  2. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 01030, Kiev, Ukraine

    E. E. Perkovsky

  3. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, 117674, Moscow, Russia

    E. E. Perkovsky

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Lyubarsky, G.Y., Perkovsky, E.E. Olibrolitus, New Genus of Shining Flower Beetles (Coleoptera, Cucujoidea, Phalacridae) from Bitterfeld and Baltic Amber. Paleontol. J. 54, 143–148 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030120020070

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