First record of the genus Eulomalus (Coleoptera: Histeridae) from late Eocene Baltic amber

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Table 1. Histeridae described from Baltic amber.

Taxonomic placement	Species	Reference
Abraeinae: Acritini	Acritus sutirca	Alekseev and Bukejs (2021b)
Dendrophilinae: Bacaniini	Bacanius goorskii	Alekseev and Bukejs (2021a)
Dendrophilinae: Paromalini	Carcinops donelaitisi	Alekseev (2016)
	Eulomalus balticus	Present paper
	Xestipyge ikanti	Alekseev (2016)

Figure 1. Eulomalus balticus sp. nov. A – ventral view (ps = pygidial sculpture); B – dorsal view; C – head, frontal view; D – prosternal keel, mesoventrite (mps = marginal prosternal stria, tms = transverse mesoventral stria).

Figure 2. Eulomalus balticus sp. nov. A – dorsal view (fs = frontal stria); B – ventral view (ac = antennal club, es = epipleural stria, lms = lateral metaventral stria, mls = median longitudinal stria, mms = marginal mesoventral stria, mps = marginal prosternal striae, ps = pygidial sculpture, s = scape, tms = transverse mesoventral stria).

Alekseev VI, Bukejs A. 2021b. The first extinct species of Acritus LeConte, 1853 (Histeridae: Abraeinae) from Eocene Baltic amber: a microscopic beetle inclusion studied with X-ray micro-computed tomography. Foss Rec. 24(2):223–231. doi:10.5194/fr-24-223-2021.

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Alekseev VI, Bukejs A. 2021a. A new Eocene Bacanius species (Histeridae: Dendrophilinae) from Baltic amber. Foss Rec. 24(1):93–99. doi:10.5194/fr-24-93-2021.

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Alekseev VI. 2016. Description of two clown beetles (Coleoptera: Staphyliniformia: Hydrophiloidea: Histeridae) from Baltic amber (Cenozoic, Paleogene, Eocene). Balt J Coleopterol. 16(1):27–35.

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