The most ancient bark beetle known: A new tribe, genus and species from Lebanese amber (Coleoptera, Curculionidae, Scolytinae)

Systematic Entomology

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 101-112

  Kirejtshuk, Alexander G ^a   Azar, Dany ^b   Beaver, Roger A ^c   Mandelshtam, Mikhail Yu ^a   Nel, André ^d  

^a ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBANESE UNIVERSITY   (Lebanon)

^c Soi Wat Pranon ^*  (Thailand)

^d MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBER; BEETLE; BIOLOGICAL CHARACTERISTICS; CRETACEOUS; FOSSIL RECORD; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; NEW GENUS; NEW SPECIES; PALEOBIOLOGY; PHYLOGENETICS; TAXONOMY;

AMBROSIA; COLEOPTERA; CURCULIONIDAE; CURCULIONOIDEA; PECTINATUS; PLATYPODINI; SCOLYTINAE;

EID: 58149232506     PISSN: 03076970     EISSN: 13653113     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2008.00442.x     Document Type: Article

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