Palaeoestes Kirejtshuk and Nel 2009 (handsome fungus beetle)

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

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Type: Palaeoestes eocenicus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Oise amber, Le Quesnoy (Eocene of France)

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