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The false flower beetle Cyrtanaspis kerneggeri Perkovsky et Odnosum sp. nov. is described from Baltic amber. The new species is similar to the extant C. phalerata, from which it differs in the absence of a hair pattern on the elytra and pronotum, in the subsecuriform last palpomere, and the shape of antennomeres; it differs from C. sauteri in the elytral shape.
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The authors are deeply grateful to Friedrich Kernegger (Germany, Hamburg), who made the material available for description, Dmitry Telnov (Natural History Museum, London) for literature and valuable advice, as well as Andreas Weigel (Germany, Wernburg) for kindly providing photographs of extant Cyrtanaspis phalerata.
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Perkovsky, E.E., Odnosum, V.K., Nazarenko, V.Y. et al. First Record of the Genus Cyrtanaspis Emery (Insecta: Coleoptera: Scraptiidae) from Baltic Amber. Paleontol. J. 56, 208–212 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0031030122020101
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