Micromalthus LeConte 1878 (telephone pole beetle)
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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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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