Pycnomerus simukovi Alekseev, 2015

Alekseev, Vitalii I. & Bukejs, Andris, 2016, New Zopheridae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber, Zootaxa 4178 (3), pp. 409-427 : 422

Pycnomerus simukovi Alekseev, 2015

( Figs 28–29 )

Material examined. One specimen with collection number 331 [ CAG], Baltic amber, Gdańsk , Poland. Complete beetle is included in small, transparent, subrectangular amber piece (15 × 11 × 3 mm), that is yellowish in colour, and preserved without supplementary fixation. Ventral portion of specimen is partially obscured by “milky” opacity within amber. Syninclusions consist of few stellate Fagaceae trichomes and small gas vesicles.

Note. Body length of beetle is 3.1 mm; rufous. This specimen has pronotal punctation sparser than in the holotype.

Figures

FIGURES 25 – 31. Fossil Zopheridae. 25 – 27 — Pycnomerus sp., specimen No. 273 - 2 [CCHH]: 25 — habitus, dorsal view, 25 — habitus, ventral view, 25 — habitus, lateral view; 28 – 29 — Pycnomerus simukovi Alekseev, specimen No. 331 [CAG]: 28 — habitus, dorsal view, 29 — details of head and pronotum, dorsal view; 30 – 31 — Synchitini gen. and sp., specimen No. 181 - 3 [CCHH]: 30 — habitus, dorsal view, 31 — habitus, ventral view. Not reproduced to the same scale.