Rhizophtoma longus, Peris & Delclòs, 2015

Peris, David & Delclòs, Xavier, 2015, Fossil Monotomidae (Coleoptera: Polyphaga) from Laurasian Cretaceous amber, Organisms Diversity & Evolution (New York, N. Y.) 15 (2), pp. 333-342 : 337

Rhizophtoma longus sp. nov. ( Fig. 3 )

Holotype MCNA –9184, a complete specimen, sex unknown, preserved in a piece of fully transparent amber, deposited in the amber collection of the MCNA ( Vitoria-Gasteiz , Spain). The specimen has a clear and fully accessible dorsal habitus; by contrast, the ventral habitus has a more restricted view, with some characters not clearly visible.

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Fig. 3 R. longus sp. nov., MCNA–9184, holotype, from Spain; a photo and camera lucida illustration of dorsal habitus; b photo and camera lucida illustration of ventral habitus; c camera lucida illustration of antenna; d camera lucida illustration of metatarsi. Scale bars a, b=