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First fossil representative of Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) described using X-ray micro-computed tomography, from Eocene Baltic amber

  • 1. Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, Vienîbas 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia.
  • 2. Australian National Insect Collection, CSIRO, Canberra ACT 2601, Australia.
  • 3. Physics Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada.
  • 4. Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St., Regina, SK, S4P 4W7, Canada. & Biology Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada. & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA
  • 5. Redpath Museum, McGill University, Montréal, QC, H3A 0C4, Canada.
  • 6. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Nahimovskiy prospekt 36, Moscow, 117997, Russia. alekseew0802@yahoo.com; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4390-5443 & Kaliningrad Regional Amber Museum, Marshal Vasilevskii square 1, Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia. & Institute of Living Systems, Immanuel Kant Baltic Federal University, Nevskogo street 14, Kaliningrad, 236016, Russia. *Corresponding author. carabidae@inbox.lv; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7165-3023

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Bukejs, Andris, Ślipiński, Adam, Mitchell, Jerit L., Mckellar, Ryan C., Bi, Mauricio Bar-, Larsson, Hans C.E., Alekseev, Vitalii I. (2021): First fossil representative of Cerylonidae (Coleoptera: Coccinelloidea) described using X-ray micro-computed tomography, from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 5032 (2): 225-236, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5032.2.4

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