†Colotes constantini Kirejtshuk and Nel 2008 (soft-winged flower beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Melyridae
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 Colotes according to E. Tihelka et al. 2021
See also Kirejtshuk and Nel 2008
Sister taxa: Colotes impexus, Colotes sambicus
Type specimen: MNHN PA 9530, 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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