Electraesalopsis Bai, Zhang & Qiu, 2017

Qiu, Tengfei, Lu, Yuanyuan, Zhang, Weiwei, Wang, Shuo, Yang, Yuxia & Bai, Ming, 2017, Electraesalopsis beuteli gen. & sp. nov., the first lucanid beetle from the Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Scarabaeoidea), Zoological Systematics 42 (3), pp. 390-394 : 391

publication ID	https://doi.org/10.11865/zs.201717
publication LSID	lsid:zoobank.org:pub:0F891CC7-9AB0-4734-A2CE-B0AE12536990
DOI	https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4616997
persistent identifier	https://treatment.plazi.org/id/221887C6-FFEA-FFF0-77BB-56B3AC40FB20
treatment provided by	Carolina
scientific name	Electraesalopsis Bai, Zhang & Qiu
status	gen. nov.

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Genus Electraesalopsis Bai, Zhang & Qiu View in CoL , gen. nov.

Type species. Electraesalopsis beuteli Bai, Zhang & Qiu , sp. nov.

Etymology. The specific name is form three word, electr (amber in Latin), aesal (from genus Aesalus ) and opsis (means looks like).

Diagnosis. This genus could be classified into Lucanidae by a combination of the following characters: mandibles extremely developed; number of antennomeres 10, partly geniculate, with a small three-segmented club, club loose; Mesotarsus with 5 distinct tarsomeres; abdomen with five-segmented.

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Taxonomy

Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Arthropoda
Class	Insecta
Order	Coleoptera
SuperFamily	Scarabaeoidea
Family	Lucanidae

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