Microscapha LeConte, 1866

Bukejs, Andris & Alekseev, Vitalii I., 2015, First record of Microscapha LeConte from Baltic amber with description of a new species and list of fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea), Zootaxa 4012 (2), pp. 351-360 : 352

Genus Microscapha LeConte, 1866

The species under consideration belongs to Microscapha based on the combination of the following characters: (1) well developed, small, triangular scutellum, (2) antennae short, with 3-segmented club, (3) antennomere 3 much shorter and narrower than antennomere 2, (4) pronotal posterior margin bisinuate, (5) pronotum without depression, (6) metasternum with median longitudinal depression, (7) metacoxae large, (8) metatibiae with two long serrate spurs, (9) sutural stria well-developed.