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Genus Tarsomegamerus Zhang, 2005 (Lasiosynidae): Atlas of extinct groups of beetles

A.G.Kirejtshuk

 

Genus Tarsomegamerus Zhang, 2005 (Lasiosynidae)
(type species: Tarsomegamerus mesozoicus Zhang, 2005

 

 

Composition:

Tarsomegamerus mesozoicus Zhang, 2005 (Dаоkhugou, Middle Jurassic)

 

October 2010.

 

On photo below holotypus DHG200031 from collection Nanjing Institute of Geology and Paleontology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, фphoto by E.V. Yanom (PIN RAN):

body

anterior part of body

tarsus

tarsus

elytron, pterotoraks and gaster

 

 

Literature:

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

 

Ян Е.В. 2010. Новый род элатериформных жуков (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) из средней-верхней юры Каратау.Палеонтологический журнал. 1: 71-75.

Kirejtshuk A.G., Chang H., Ren D. & Chung Kun S. 2010. Family Lasiosynidae n. fam., new palaeoendemic Mesozoic family from the infraorder Elateriformia (Coleoptera: Polyphaga). Annales de la Societe entomologique de France, 2010, 46 (1-2): 67-87.

Kirejtshuk A.G., Ponomarenko A.G., Prokin A.A., Chang H., Nikolajev G.V., Ren D. 2010. Current knowledge on Mesozoic Coleoptera from Daohugou and Liaoning (North East China). Acta Geologica Sinica. 84, 4: 783-792.

Zhang J.-F. 2005. The first find of chrysomelids (Insecta: Coleoptera: Chrysomeloidea) from Callovian-Oxfordian Daohugou biota of China. Geobios, 38: 865-871.