Description of a second species of the narrow-waisted bark beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Salpingidae) from Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene)

Journal Title: Baltic Journal of Coleopterology - Year 2013, Vol 13, Issue 2

Abstract

The second representative of the family Salpingidae Leach, 1815 and first extinct species of rostrate narrow-waisted bark beetles is described from Baltic amber. Salpingus henricusmonteminisp.nov. differs from other representatives of the genus by the length of rostrum, by the shape of pronotum, by the structure of antennae and punctuation of body surface.

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Vitaly I. Alekseev

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Vitaly I. Alekseev (2013). Description of a second species of the narrow-waisted bark beetles (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Salpingidae) from Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology, 13(2), 137-140. https://europub.co.uk./articles/-A-70589