New beetles of the suborder Polyphaga from the Lowermost Eocene French amber (Insects: Coleoptera)

The paper deals with the descriptions of three new genera, one new subgenus and eleven new species of the superfamilies Scirtoidea, Cleroidea, and Cucujoidea (suborder Polyphaga) originated from the Lowermost Eocene amber, namely: the Scirtidae: Cyphon gallicus nov. sp. and Cyphon lobanovi nov. sp.; the Melyridae: Malachiinae Colotes constantini nov. sp. and C. impexus nov. sp.; the Nitidulidae: Cybocephalinae Pastillocenicus polyaki nov. gen., nov. sp., and P. grandiclavis nov. gen., nov. sp. and P. longifrons nov. gen., nov. sp.; the Kateretidae: Hetherelus expressus nov. sp. and Eoceniretes yantaricus nov. gen., nov. sp.; the Smicripidae: Smicrips europeus nov. sp.; and the Anthicidae: Eurygeniinae Oisegenius antiquus nov. gen., nov. sp. The systematic positions of these new taxa and hypotheses on their bionomy are discussed.