Publications by authors named "Vitalii I Alekseev"

Based on well-preserved specimen in Baltic amber (the Kaliningrad Region, Russia), a new polypore fungus beetle of the extant Holarctic genus Eustrophus Illiger, E. praecursor sp. nov.

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Austronausibius aenigmatista sp. nov., the first fossil silvanid beetle belonging to the Recent genus Austronausibius Halstead distributed in Australia and southern South America, is described from late Eocene Rovno amber.

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Based on a well preserved female specimen from Bitterfeld amber, Monolepta rappsilberi sp. nov. is described and illustrated using X-ray micro-computed tomography (CT).

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Two new species of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Mycteridae) are described from Eocene Baltic amber from the Kaliningrad Region, Russia: Glesoconomorphus nachzehrer gen. et sp. nov.

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Based on a well-preserved specimen from Eocene Baltic amber, the second fossil species belonging to the genus Pycnomerus Erichson (Coleoptera: Zopheridae: Zopherinae), P. agtsteinicus Bukejs, Alekseev McKellar sp. nov.

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Fossil records of Scarabaeidae in Eocene amber deposits are scarce. Previously, only three species were known from Baltic amber. Based on well-preserved specimens, an additional extinct species of Eupariini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Ataenius damzeni Bukejs Alekseev, new species is described and illustrated from this Lagerstätte.

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Dignomus francescovitalii sp. nov. is described and illustrated based on a well-preserved specimen from Eocene Baltic amber.

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Based on 10 specimens from Late Eocene Baltic amber, an extinct species of Eupariini (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Aphodiinae), Airapus lithuanicus Tamutis, Alekseev, & Bukejs new species, is described and illustrated. The new species is compared with two known fossil representatives of Aphodiinae from Baltic amber. The generic placement of these two species, Saprosites succini (Zang, 1905) and Ataenius europaeus Quiel, 1910, is discussed, as are details of paleoecology for the new species.

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A new species of Clambidae, Clambus helheimricus sp. nov., is described and illustrated from Baltic amber.

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Four new zopherid species are described and illustrated from Eocene Baltic amber: Xylolaemus legalovi sp. nov., X.

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Based on two relatively well-preserved specimens from Eocene Baltic amber, Passandra septentrionaria sp. nov. is described and illustrated.

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