Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel. 2008. New beetles of the suborder Polyphaga from the lowermost Eocene French amber (Insecta: Coleoptera). Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 44:419-442
Belongs to Cyphon according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel 2008
Sister taxa: Contacyphon groehni, Contacyphon herthae, Contacyphon hoffeinsorum, Contacyphon insularis, Contacyphon involutus, Contacyphon keilbachi, Contacyphon kozlovi, Contacyphon wichardi, Cyphon pallasi, Cyphon lobanovi, Cyphon shevyrevi, Cyphon krynickyi
Type specimen: MNHN PA 3404, 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
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