†Micromalthus eocenicus Kirejtshuk et al. 2010 (telephone pole beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Micromalthidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk, A. Nel, and F. Collomb. 2010. New Archostemata (Insecta: Coleoptera) from the French Paleocene and Early Eocene, with a note on the composition of the suborder. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 46(1-2):216-227
Belongs to Micromalthus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Micromalthus debilis, Micromalthus priabonicus
Type specimen: PA 7870, an exoskeleton. 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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