New taxa of Baltic amber false darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Melandryidae)
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The extinct representatives of family are known from the Upper Cretaceous (the Turonian: Pseudocuphosis tristis Nikitsky, 2002 and Archaeserropalpus cretaceus Nikitsky, 2002; the Cognac-Santonian: Archaeoxylita zherichini Nikitsky, 1977). Melandryid beetles are also known from Eocene ambers of Europe. One species was described from Ukrainian amber (Orchesia rasnitzyni Nikitsky, 2011). At least the nine following extant genera belonging to two subfamilies are reported by different authors from the Baltic succinite: Orchesia Latreille, 1807; Abdera Stephens, 1832; Anisoxya Mulsant, 1856; Dircaea Fabricius, 1798; Phloiotrya Stephens, New taxa of Baltic amber false darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Melandryidae)
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