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Genus Cylindrobrotus Kirejtshuk, Azar, Beaver et al., 2009 (Scolytidae): Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

Genus Cylindrobrotus Kirejtshuk, Azar, Beaver, Mandelshtam et Nel, 2009 (type species: Cylindrobrotos pectinatus Kirejtshuk, Azar, Beaver, Mandelshtam et Nel, 2009, by monotypy)

 

A.G.Kirejtshuk , January 2009

 

 

 

Cylindrobrotus pectinatus Kirejtshuk, Azar, Beaver, Mandelshtam et Nel, 2009,
Lower Cretaceous, Lebanese amber;
holotype (collection Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris).
Photo by A.G.Kirejtshuk and A. Nel

 

Dorsal view.


Head, ventral view.


Prothorax, ventral view.


Meso- and metathoraces, ventral view.


Protibia, dorsal view.


Mesotibia and tarsus, dorsal view.


 

 

Literature:

 

(See also the page Systematic list of fossil beetles of Scarabaeina - 4 part)

 

Kirejtshuk A.G., Azar D. Beaver R.A., Mandelshtam M.Yu. & Nel A. 2009. The most ancient bark beetle known: a new tribe, genus and species from Lebanese amber (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae). Systematic Entomology, 34, 1: 101-112.