Palmnickeneoceras, Fanti & Damgaard, 2018

Fanti, Fabrizio & Damgaard, Anders Leth, 2018, Fossil soldier beetles from Baltic amber of the Anders Damgaard amber collection (Coleoptera Cantharidae), Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 18 (1), pp. 1-32 : 13

Genus Palmnickeneoceras n. gen.

Type species. Palmnickeneoceras ejersboi n. sp. The genus is at present monotypic.

Etymology. From Palmnicken (now Yantarny) the old name of the locality of the amber deposits, the word-forming element “eo” = earliest, derived to Greek “eos” = dawn, morning, daybreak (in reference to Eocene, the second Epoch to the Tertiary Period) and “ ceras”, the simple Latin transliteration of the Greek “ keras” = horn, antenna. Gender: neuter. Diagnosis. The new genus is characterised by long elytra covering the last abdominal segments; pronotum transverse with parallel sides and basal margin slightly bordered; 11 antennal articles; antennomeres III-V dilated/ inflated and very slightly saucer-shaped (similar to Cacomorphocerus where the “central” antennomeres are saucer-shaped); antennomere VI subrectangular to slightly basally elongated and the others filiform. Furthermore, the maxillary palps are very elongated and seem sligh tly secur ifor m, wh ich makes th e assignment to the subfamily Cantharinae uncertain and is here tentatively included in the tribe Cantharini .