A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae)

Lars Hendrich; Michael Balke

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.7

A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae)

Zootaxa. 2020 Dec 15;4895(2):zootaxa.4895.2.7. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.7.

Authors

Lars Hendrich¹, Michael Balke

Affiliation

¹ SNSB-Zoologische Staatssammlung, Münchhausenstrasse 21, D-81247 München, Germany. hendrich@snsb.de.

PMID: 33756906
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4895.2.7

Abstract

We provide the first report of the Nearctic diving beetle subfamily Coptotominae Van den Branden, 1885 for the Paleactic Region, based on † Coptotomus balticus sp. n. from Baltic amber. Coptotomus Say, 1830 is otherwise distributed with five extant species and one subspecies in the Nearctic Region. The new species is the smallest species of the genus and thus readily separated from the extant taxa.

Keywords: Coleoptera, Dytiscidae, Coptotominae, new species, Baltic amber.

MeSH terms

Amber*
Animals
Baltic States
Coleoptera* / genetics
Color
Fossils

Substances

Amber