Abstract
ABSTRACT Examples of the small beetle family Cerylonidae are scarcely represented in the fossil record or at least are rarely determined as such by specialists. Until now, only one species of an extinct genus has been reliably identified to this family from Eocene Baltic amber. A new species, Mychocerus gedanensis McHugh et Ślipiński, sp. nov. (Coleoptera, Cerylonidae), is described from Eocene Baltic amber using X-ray micro-computed tomography (μCT) and optical microscopy. This is the first extinct species described for the subfamily Ceryloninae. It belongs to the extant genus Mychocerus Erichson, 1845, the largest cerylonid genus, which has a widespread distribution that until now excluded the continental parts of the Palaearctic. The new fossil species can be placed in the North American discretus group with two remarkably similar species (M. discretus (Casey, 1890) and M. striatus Sen Gupta & Crowson, 1973) based on the presence of a long and parallel-sided prosternal process. LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:95EA100C-3323-472C-A17B-B75480B3FB18
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