Gondvanocoleus chikatunovi, Ponomarenko & Yan & Strelnikova & Beattie, 2020

Gondvanocoleus chikatunovi n. sp.

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LSID: urn:lsid:zoobank.org:act:C95ADCAC­E84B­4AD0­B866­23E491A8BD11 .

Etymology: The species is named in honour of Prof. V.I. Chikatunov, a coleopterist from the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Description: Elytron 11.5 mm long, 2.7 mm wide, i.e. 4.3× as long as broad, widest at its base, then narrowing to asymmetrical apex. Outer margin with rather narrow epipleuron, covered in up to 5 rows of small tubercles, with about 50 cells in each row. First vein (from sutural margin) barely reaches elytron’s midlength, bending outwards near apex; next vein longest, reaches apical fourth; third vein slightly longer than first one. There are up to six rows of cells in subcostal (first) field; next field have three rows reaching apical fifth; third field have three rows near base, then two, and further apically one; sutural (fourth) field with 5 rows at elytral base and three rows in distal half.

Holotype: no. 41401, right elytron; Permian, Lopingian, Newcastle Coal Measures , Booraloo Subgroup , Croudace Bay Formation ; Australia, New South Wales, Belmont locality.