Two new fossil species of the genus Atomaria Stephens (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) from Eocene European amber with a key to species described from fossil resins

Georgy Yu Lyubarsky; Andris Bukejs

doi:10.11646/zootaxa.5188.3.5

Two new fossil species of the genus Atomaria Stephens (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) from Eocene European amber with a key to species described from fossil resins

Zootaxa. 2022 Sep 19;5188(3):283-289. doi: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.3.5.

Authors

Georgy Yu Lyubarsky¹, Andris Bukejs²

Affiliations

¹ Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, Bol'shaya Nikitskaya Str. 2, Moscow 103009, Russia. . lgeorgy@rambler.ru.
² Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, Daugavpils LV-5401, Latvia. . carabidae@inbox.lv.

PMID: 37044778
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5188.3.5

Abstract

Two new extinct species of the genus Atomaria Stephens, 1829 are described and illustrated: A. (Anchicera) alekseevi sp. nov. from Baltic amber and A. (Anchicera) perkovskyi sp. nov. from Rovno amber. A key to extinct Eocene species of Atomaria is provided.

MeSH terms

Animals
Coleoptera*
Fossils