Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk, M. V. Nabozhenko, and A. Nel. 2010. New genus and species of the tribe Opatrini (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Tenebrioninae) from the lowermost Eocene amber of Paris Basin. Proceedings of the Zoological Institute RAS 314(2):191-196

Belongs to Eupachypterus according to P. Bouchard et al. 2021

See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2010 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MNHN A32837, an exoskeleton (male with slightly exposed penis trunk). Its type locality is Oise amber, Le Quesnoy, which is in a Ypresian terrestrial amber in the Argiles d'lignite du Soissonnais Formation of France.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy

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