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Genus Boleopsis Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2013 (Boleopsidae): atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

Genus Boleopsis Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2013 (Boleopsidae)
(type species: Boleopsis polinae Kirejtshuk et Nel, 2013)


 

This genus currently includes only one described species of the family.

 

 

Composition:

 

type species (Lower Eocene )

 

 

 

August 2013

 


 

On the photo holotype (length of body 2.6 mm) from collection by National Natural History Museum, Paris
(Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris): "PA 1389" (~53 million years).

 

Body, from above

Body, from below


Head and pronotum, from above

Head and prothorax, from below


Head, from above

Head, from below


Front and middle legs, from above

Metaventrit and abdomen, from below



 

Literature:

 

(Look also at the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina (Part 3))

 

Kirejtshuk A.G. & Nel A. 2013. Current knowledge of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the Lowermost Eocene Oise amber. Insect Systematics & Evolution, 44: 175-201.