The Triassic Insect Fauna from Argentina. Coleoptera from Los Rastros Formation (Bermejo Basin) La Rioja province

MARTINS-NETO, R.G.; GALLEGO, O.F.; MANCUSO, A.

AMEGHINIANA

Asociación Paleontológica Argentina

Lugar: Buenos Aires; Año: 2006 vol. 43 p. 591 - 609

0002-7014

New fossil insect taxa from the Los Rastros Formation (early Late Triassic), La Rioja Province, Argentina are described. Four new genera and fourteen new species of the order Coleoptera are proposed: Ademosyne arcucciae Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Ademosyne elongatus Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Ademosyne hexacostata Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Ademosyne punctuada Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Argentinosyne frenguellii Martins-Neto and Gallego gen. et sp. nov., Argentinosyne gonaldiae Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Argentinosyne gualoensis Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Argentinosyne rugosa Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., Argentinosyne losrastrosensis Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov, (Permosynidae  Tillyard), Argentinocupes pulcher Martins-Neto and Gallego gen. et sp. nov., Argentinocupes abdalai Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov. (Cupedidae Latreille), Gemelina triangularis Martins-Neto and Gallego gen. et sp. nov., Cardiosyne obesa Martins-Neto and Gallego gen. et sp. nov., and Cardiosyne elegans Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov. (Elateridae? Leach). Additionally new specimens assigned to Argentinosyne rugosa Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov. and Argentinosyne gonaldiae Martins-Neto and Gallego sp. nov., from the Cacheuta Formation (early Late Triassic), Uspallata, Mendoza Province (a new locality for insects) are included in this paper.