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Electraesalopsis beuteli gen. & sp. nov., the first lucanid beetle from the Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea)

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  • 1. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China & Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • 2. Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China
  • 3. Three Gorges Entomological Museum, P.O. Box 4680, Chongqing 400015, China *Corresponding authors, E-mails: yxyang@hbu.edu.cn, baim@ioz.ac.cn
  • 4. The Key Laboratory of Zoological Systematics and Application, College of Life Sciences, Hebei University, Baoding 071002, China

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Qiu, Tengfei, Lu, Yuanyuan, Zhang, Weiwei, Wang, Shuo, Yang, Yuxia, Bai, Ming (2017): Electraesalopsis beuteli gen. & sp. nov., the first lucanid beetle from the Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea). Zoological Systematics 42 (3): 390-394, DOI: 10.11865/zs.201717, URL: http://zoobank.org/286cfd9f-1456-4772-b3d5-8a13ff24a9f1

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