†Palaeoestes Kirejtshuk and Nel 2009 (handsome fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. Nel. 2009. New genera and species of Cucujiformia (Coleoptera, Polyphaga) from lowermost Eocene French amber. Denisia 26:103-118
Parent taxon: Leiestinae according to W. Tomaszewska et al. 2018
See also Kirejtshuk and Nel 2009 and Shockley and Alekseev 2014
Sister taxa: Burmalestes, Cretolestes, Glesirhanis, Leiestes, Phymaphoroides, Trycherus
Subtaxa: Palaeoestes eocenicus
Type: Palaeoestes eocenicus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy (Eocene of France)
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