New fossil dermestid-beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Dominican amber of the Greater Antilles, with an appendix listing known fossil species

Abstract

Description of five new taxa of the family Dermestidae from the Dominican amber. One species (Cryptorhopalum electron Beal, 1972) is newly recorded from the Dominican amber.

The check-list of world fossil Dermestidae is included.

Keywords

• Taxonomy
• description
• distribution
• fossil
• Coleoptera
• Dermestidae
• Dominican amber
• Tertiary
• Oligocene
• Miocene