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Genus Rhizophtoma Kirejtshuk et Azar, 2009 (Monotomidae): Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G. Kirejtshuk и M.B. Dianоv

 

Subfamily Rhizophtominae Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk et al., 2009 (Lower Cretaceous - Recent)

 


Genus Rhizophtoma Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk, Azar, Tafforeau, Boistel et Fernandez, 2009
(type species: Rhizophtoma elateroides Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk, Azar, Tafforeau, Boistel et Fernandez, 2009 , monotype)

 

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk, August 2009.

 

 

On photo below:Rhizophtoma elateroides Kirejtshuk et Azar in Kirejtshuk, Azar, Tafforeau, Boistel et Fernandez, 2009 -
paratype "1512" - Lower Cretaceous, Lebanese amber (temporarily in collection of National Natural History Museum, Paris).

Photo by ( A.G.Kirejtshuk, D.Azar, P.Tafforeau, R.Boistel and V.Fernandez), performed in the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), Grenoble, France).

 

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Dorsal view 		rhizoph_d.jpg
Lateral view 		rhizoph_c.jpg
Ventral view 		rhizoph_a.jpg
Lateral view
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Anterior and posterior views
Three-dimensional picture (animation by - Paul Tafforeau) obtained by using synchrotron
in European Synchrotron Radiation Facility.

 

 

Literature:

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


Kirejtshuk A.G., Azar D., Tafforeau P., Boistel R., Fernandez V. 2009. New beetles of Polyphaga (Coleptera, Polyphaga) from Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Denisia, 26 (zugleich Katalogue der oberoesterreichischen Landesmuseen, Neue Serie, 86): 119-130.