Rhipidandrus Le Conte 1862 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Parent taxon: Bolitophagini according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Doyen and Poinar 1994, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: Bolitophagus, Eledona, Eledonoprius, Proteleates

Subtaxa: Rhipidandrus quadripapillatus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll) (Miocene to Miocene of Dominican Republic)

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