†Pastillocenicus grandiclavis Kirejtshuk and Nel 2008 (sap beetle)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
Insecta - Coleoptera - Nitidulidae
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 Pastillocenicus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel 2008
Sister taxa: Pastillocenicus longifrons, Pastillocenicus polyaki
Type specimen: MNHN PA 602, 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.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.