Micromalthus LeConte 1878 (telephone pole beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Micromalthidae

Full reference: J. L. LeConte. 1878. Descriptions of new species, in The Coleoptera of Michigan. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 17:593-669

Parent taxon: Micromalthidae according to S. Yamamoto 2021

See also Carpenter 1992, Kirejtshuk et al. 2010, LeConte 1878 and Perkovsky 2016

Sister taxa: Archaeomalthus, Cretomalthus, Protomalthus

Subtaxa: Micromalthus debilis Micromalthus eocenicus Micromalthus priabonicus

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Type: Micromalthus debilis

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (3 collections), Mexico (1)

• Eocene of France (1), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (1)

Total: 7 collections each including a single occurrence

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