Lyubarsky G.Yu.1, Perkovsky E.E.2 2014. New species of the genus Nganasania from Upper Cretaceous of Taymyr (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) // Russian Entomol. J. Vol.23. No.3: 191–194 [in English].

1 Zoological Museum of Moscow State University, Bol’shaya Nikitskaya str. 6, Moscow, 125009 Russia.

2 Schmalhausen Institute of Zoology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Bogdan Khmelnitski str. 15, Kiev, 01601 Ukraine.

KEY WORDS: Cryptophagidae, Nganasania, Upper Cretaceous, Taymyr amber, Russia.

ABSTRACT. Nganasania taymyrica sp.n. Lyubarsky et Perkovsky is described based on a fossil inclusion in Upper Cretaceous Taymyr amber (Russia). The new species differs from fossil Nganasania khetica in shape of pronotum, weakly narrowed anteriorly, in less long elytra, and shorted length of body.

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