title: Glesirhanis bercioi, a new genus and species from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) with a checklist and nomenclatural notes regarding fossil Endomychidae.
abstract: A new genus and species of handsome fungus beetle, Glesirhanis bercioi gen. nov., sp. nov. (Coleoptera: Endomychidae: Leiestinae) is described from Baltic amber. The newly described genus is compared with all known extant and extinct genera of the subfamily. A key to the genera of Leiestinae including fossils and a checklist of fossil Endomychidae are provided. The status of two taxa previously placed in Endomychidae, Palaeoendomychus gymnus Zhang and Tetrameropsis mesozoica Kirejtshuk & Azar, is discussed, and a new status for the latter, elevating it to the family-level as Tetrameropseidae status nov., is proposed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Entomology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, P.O. Box 37012, MRC 165, Washington, DC 20013-7012, U.S.A.; Email: shockleyf@si.edu.
authors.forename: Floyd W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Shockley
authors.affiliation: Department of Zootechny, Kaliningrad State Technical University, Sovetsky av. 1. 236000, Kaliningrad, Russia.; Email: alekseew0802@yahoo.com.
authors.forename: Vitaly I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Alekseev
mesh_terms: D018647:Amber; D000818:Animals; D001517:Coleoptera / Q000033:anatomy & histology* / Q000145:classification*; D005580:Fossils; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D018647:Amber