Orchesia turkini Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012

Alekseev, Vitalii Igorevich & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula: new genus, six new species, new records and key to described taxa, Zootaxa 4965 (1), pp. 142-166 : 162

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.4965.1.7

publication LSID

lsid:zoobank.org:pub:1F5BE28F-C8B5-47FF-8A3F-68B5BC40BD6F

DOI

https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4743008

persistent identifier

https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03B587D0-D904-4D7C-06B0-E1A7FB6ADB47

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Plazi

scientific name

Orchesia turkini Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012
status

 

Orchesia turkini Alekseev & Bukejs, 2012

Material examined. One specimen with collection number MMO 1/43 7657/133 [ MWO]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen partially obscured by milky opacity (left and ventral sides). Body length of the specimen is 3.5 mm. The beetle inclusion is preserved in a small-sized, yellow-orange, flat, polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 16×11× 2.5 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are absent.

One specimen with collection number MMO 1/22 4730/258 [ MWO]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen. Body length of the specimen is 3.6 mm. The beetle inclusion is preserved in a small-sized, orange, flat, polished piece of transparent amber with dimensions of 16×12× 2 mm without supplementary fixation. Syninclusions are absent.

One specimen with collection number 7862 [ CAG]; Baltic amber, adult, sex unknown, complete specimen. Syninclusions are represented by few stellate fagacean trichomes and numerous detrital particles.

CAG

Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Coleoptera

Family

Melandryidae

Genus

Orchesia

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