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03A887A2FF8CFFC202F7360BB903FE24.text	03A887A2FF8CFFC202F7360BB903FE24.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Chevrolatia sp .	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Chevrolatia sp.</p>
            <p>(Figs 1, 3–5)</p>
            <p>Material studied. Inclusion in flat, oval amber piece (Fig. 1), longer diameter 8 mm, beetle exposed in lateral view, details of dorsal and ventral sides not visible, sex unknown; Eocene Baltic amber, Lithuania; collecting details unknown (MNHW; donation of Albert Allen, USA).</p>
            <p>Description. BL 1.73 mm (exposed abdominal apex excluded). Body (Figs 3, 5) elongate and relatively strongly convex, dark brown.</p>
            <p>Head (Figs 3–5) strongly elongate, HL 0.30 mm; compound eyes nearly round and adjacent to antennal cavities, tempora nearly twice as long as eyes; posterior portion of head strongly depressed up to occipital constriction, 'neck' region partly exposed, elongate; maxillary palps with minute proximal palpomeres, palpomere III large, strongly broadening from base to apex, palpomere IV broad and short, obliquely truncate. Head with moderately long and sparse suberect setae, vertex with setae directed dorsoposteriorly, 'neck' region with setae directed dorsoanteriorly (Fig. 4). Antennae (Figs 3, 5) long and slender, gradually but weakly broadening distally; AnL 0.93 mm; scape nearly three times as long as broad, broadened distally; pedicel elongate but much shorter than scape, subcylindrical; antennomeres III–IV each slightly elongate, V–VI distinctly elongate, VII–VIII about as long as broad, IX–X slightly longer than broad, XI shorter than IX and X combined, slightly broader than X, about twice as long as broad, with rounded apex. Antennae covered with sparse and moderately long suberect to erect setae.</p>
            <p>Shape of pronotum not possible to assess, probably elongate bell-shaped or subtrapezoidal, PL 0.40 mm; entire lateral margin carinate; traces of lateral antebasal impressions visible near posterior pronotal corners, possibly also transverse impression is present. Pronotal disc covered with sparse, moderately long erect setae.</p>
            <p>Elytra (Figs 3, 5) elongate, more convex than pronotum; EL 1.03 mm; dorsal surface only partly visible, covered with moderately long and sparse erect setae.</p>
            <p>Legs (Figs 3, 5) long and slender, unmodified; all tibiae appear straight or nearly straight.</p>
            <p>Pygidium (Fig. 5) exposed, subtriangular.</p>
            <p> Remarks. The Eocene specimen can be unambiguously placed in the extant tribe Chevolatiini on the basis of its remarkable body shape, especially the head, which is posteriorly depressed and has dorsal and ventral setae in front of and behind the occipital constriction directed towards the constriction (Fig. 4); the structure of maxillary palpomeres III and IV; the gradually thickened antennae that can bend between the scape and pedicel and with distinctly enlarged scape; and the exposed pygidium. All these characters are similar to those diagnostic of the extant species of  Chevrolatia Jacquelin du Val, 1850 (Figs 6–7), the only genus of Chevrolatiini. Except for unusually convex elytra and the pronotal lateral carinae extending from anterior to posterior pronotal margins (more flattened elytra and usually incomplete lateral pronotal carinae in extant species), the Eocene specimen does not differ from known species of  Chevrolatia . The differences are minor and do not justify establishing a separate genus. This interesting species is very similar to extant members of  Chevrolatia and formal description as a new and named species is not possible because of lack of reliable diagnostic characters. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A887A2FF8CFFC202F7360BB903FE24	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jałoszyński, Paweł;Kubisz, Daniel	Jałoszyński, Paweł, Kubisz, Daniel (2016): First records of Chevrolatiini and Cephenniini in Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4114 (5): 572-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.3
03A887A2FF8AFFC302F73628B855FEB6.text	03A887A2FF8AFFC302F73628B855FEB6.taxon	http://purl.org/dc/dcmitype/Text	http://rs.tdwg.org/ontology/voc/SPMInfoItems#GeneralDescription	text/html	en	Cephennodes	<html xmlns:mods="http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3">
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            <p> Cephennodes (incertae sedis) sp. </p>
            <p>(Figs 2, 8–15)</p>
            <p>Material studied. Inclusion in subtriangular amber piece (Fig. 2), length 23 mm, beetle nearly entirely exposed, but some structures obscured by a milky 'cloud' surrounding abdomen and mouthparts, sex unknown; Eocene Baltic amber, collecting details unknown (ISEA, catalog No. MP/514; donation of Jacek Serafin, Poland).</p>
            <p>Description. BL 1.73 mm. Body (Figs 8–15) elongate but stout, relatively strongly convex, constriction between pronotum and elytra shallow, pigmentation dark reddish-brown.</p>
            <p>Head elongate, HL 0.38 mm, HW 0.30 mm; compound eyes oval, large and adjacent to antennal cavities; vertex convex; frons flattened, unmodified; supraantennal tubercles weakly raised. Punctures of head fine, inconspicuous; setae on frons and vertex short, sparse, suberect. Labrum large, nearly semicircular; mandibles long and slender, strongly curved ventromesally; maxillary palp with palpomere III broadest near distal third, palpomere IV about as long as broad, subconical with truncate apex. Antennae moderately long and slender, with three terminal antennomeres forming indistinctly demarcated club; AnL 0.65 mm; all antennomeres elongate, XI slightly shorter than IX and X combined, slightly broader than X, about twice as long as broad, with blunt apex. Antennae covered with sparse, short and recumbent to suberect setae.</p>
            <p>Pronotum in dorsal view (Fig. 12) subrectangular with rounded anterior margin, strongly transverse, PL 0.48 mm, PW 0.68; lateral marginal carinae barely noticeably microserrate and narrowly demarcated from disc; sides weakly rounded; posterior pronotal corners nearly right-angled; posterior margin shallowly bisinuate; lateral antebasal pits distinct, large but shallow, each located slightly closer to lateral than to posterior pronotal margin. Pronotal disc covered with fine but sharply marked punctures, those in median area separated by spaces about twice as wide as diameters of punctures; setae sparse, short and suberect.</p>
            <p>Elytra (Figs 8, 12) elongate, oval, more convex than pronotum; EL 0.88 mm, EW 0.80 mm, EI 1.09; each elytron with small humeral denticle, subhumeral line as long as about 0.25 EL and distinct basal elytral fovea located at middle between lateral margin of large, subtriangular mesoscutellum and subhumeral line. Punctures on elytra distinctly larger but shallower than those on pronotum, with diffused margins and those in anterior half of each elytron separated by spaces about 1.5 times as wide as diameters of punctures; setae longer than those on pronotum, moderately sparse, suberect.</p>
            <p>Legs (Figs 8–15) moderately long and slender, unmodified; all tibiae straight or nearly straight.</p>
            <p> Remarks. This specimen can be unambiguously determined as  Cephennodes Reitter, 1884 , the type genus of  Cephenniini Reitter, 1882 , on the basis of the suboval body form; the subconical and truncated maxillary palpomere IV; the long and nearly semicircular labrum; the long mandibles strongly curved ventromesally; the head lacking occipital constriction and strongly declined; the pronotum with lateral marginal carinae and a pair of lateral antebasal pits; the prosternal process subtriangular and elongate in ventral view; each elytron with one distinct basal fovea and subhumeral line; the mesoventral intercoxal process broad and anteriorly flanked by distinctly demarcated subtriangular impressed areas functioning as procoxal rests; and the metaventral intercoxal process broad, approximately trapezoidal and emarginated. </p>
            <p> Extant species of  Cephennodes are externally uniform, so that primary diagnostic characters of species are associated with male secondary sexual modifications of various body parts (useful to subdivide  Cephennodes into informal species groups) and the aedeagus. Even subgenera of  Cephennodes are defined on the basis of genital characters, and therefore a species that shows no particular modifications can be assigned to a subgenus only if males are available. The sex of the Eocene species is unknown, all visible body parts of this specimen are unmodified, and it represents a 'generalized' habitus, typical of many unremarkable extant species that can be identified only on the basis of the aedeagus. Consequently, the Eocene specimen cannot be unambiguously distinguished from many very similar extant species and it is here treated as  Cephennodes (incertae sedis) sp. </p>
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	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03A887A2FF8AFFC302F73628B855FEB6	Public Domain	No known copyright restrictions apply. See Agosti, D., Egloff, W., 2009. Taxonomic information exchange and copyright: the Plazi approach. BMC Research Notes 2009, 2:53 for further explanation.		MagnoliaPress via Plazi	Jałoszyński, Paweł;Kubisz, Daniel	Jałoszyński, Paweł, Kubisz, Daniel (2016): First records of Chevrolatiini and Cephenniini in Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Zootaxa 4114 (5): 572-580, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4114.5.3
