Pentaphyllus Dejean 1821 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: P. F. M. Dejean. 1821. Catalogue de la collection de Coléoptères de M. le Baron Dejean 1-136
Parent taxon: Diaperina according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021
See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019
Sister taxa: Ceropria, Liodema, Neomida, Platydema
Subtaxa: Pentaphyllus cioides
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Yantarny, Kernegger collection (Eocene of Russian Federation)
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