A New Fossil Genus of False Blister Beetles (Coleoptera: Oedemeridae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese Amber
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Calopodinae, new taxa, Myanmar, CenomanianAbstract
In this article, a new genus with four new species of the family Oedemeridae from mid- Cretaceous Burmese amber are described and illustrated. Ditysparedrus n. gen. differs from other genera of the subfamily in the short ventrite I and pyriform elytra. Key to new species of this genus is given.
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