Soft-winged flower beetles (Coleoptera, Malachiidae), Apalochrus femoralis pallipes Motschulsky, 1860 and Ebaeus Erichson, 1840 species, are recorded for the first time from Quaternary fossils in deposit Ustyanka-1 near Ustyanka river, right tributary of Alei river Altaiskii Krai, West Siberia, Russia. The strata containing malachiid fragments belong to warm phase late glacial succession. It is...

The genus Apalochrus Erichson, 1840 (Coleoptera, Cleroidea, Malachiidae) is revised. All seven species and subspecies of the genus have been discussed and described, all materials studied have been listed and the known distributions reported. Figures of male habiti, genitalia, and distribution map are supplied; a determination key is also provided. One new status and two new synonymies are prop...

Soft-winged flower beetles from the United Arab Emirates are studied for first time. Three new genera, Tonyattalus gen. nov. of tribe Attalini, Tonycolotes Colotini, and Arabotroglops Troglopini, two species, vanharteni et sp. longantennatus nov., described. kovari (Švihla, 1987) et. comb. is recorded time transferred genus Colotes Erichson, 1840. All species discussed in paper described illust...