Insecta - Coleoptera - Latridiidae
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
Belongs to Corticaria according to H. P. Reike et al. 2017
See also Kirejtshuk and Nel 2009
Sister taxa: Corticaria aeterna, Corticaria amberica, Corticaria egregia, Corticaria hodeberti, Corticaria melanophthalma, Corticaria occlusa, Corticaria petrefacta, Corticaria reitteri
Type specimen: PA 2381, 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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