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Issue: Vol. 3794 No. 4: 8 May 2014
Type: Article
Published: 2014-05-08
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.3794.4.9
Page range: 581–586
Abstract views: 25
PDF downloaded: 12

A new genus of Podonominae (Diptera: Chironomidae) in Late Eocene Rovno amber from Ukraine

I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnytskogo 15, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine.
Present address: Leibniz Institute for Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries, Müggleseedamm 310, 12587, Berlin
I. I. Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, B. Khmelnytskogo 15, 01601 Kiev, Ukraine.
Diptera Chironomidae Podonominae Palaeoboreochlus new genus new species Eocene Rovno amber Ukraine

Abstract

The genus Palaeoboreochlus Baranov et Andersen, n. gen. is erected based on P. inornatus Baranov et Andersen, n. sp. described from a male found in Late Eocene Rovno amber. The new genus groups with Boreochlus Edwards in the tribe "Boreochlini".