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Ceratonotha, a new erotylid genus (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) from late Eocene amber

  • 1. Zoological Museum, Moscow State University, ul. Bol'shaya Nikitskaya 6, Moscow, 125009 Russia
  • 2. A.A. Borissiak Paleontological Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow 117647, Russia & Paleontological Laboratory, Cherepovets State University, Cherepovets 162600, Russia
  • 3. Natural History Museum of Denmark, Universitetsparken 15, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark

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Lyubarsky, G. Yu., Vasilenko, D.V., Perkovsky, E. E. (2024): Ceratonotha, a new erotylid genus (Coleoptera, Erotylidae) from late Eocene amber. Zootaxa 5458 (2): 275-285, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5458.2.6, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.5360.3.8

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