A new genus and two new species of Buprestidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the Yixian Formation (Lower Cretaceous), Liaoning, China
Abstract
A new genus Mongoligenula gen. nov. and two new species (Mongoligenula altilabdominis sp. nov. - type species, and. M. gracilis sp. nov.) of Buprestidae are described and illustrated from the Yixian Formation of Beipiao City, Liaoning Province, in northeastern China.
- Publication:
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Cretaceous Research
- Pub Date:
- January 2015
- DOI:
- 10.1016/j.cretres.2014.04.014
- Bibcode:
- 2015CrRes..52..480Y
- Keywords:
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- Buprestidae;
- Polycestinae;
- Fossil;
- Mesozoic;
- Yixian Formation;
- Lower Cretaceous