Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
Full reference: V. I. Alekseev. 2012. Sucinoptinus bukejsi sp.nov. (Coleoptera: Ptinidae: Ptinini), the second species of the Tertiary genus from the Baltic amber. Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 12:145-148
Belongs to Sucinoptinus according to A. Bukejs and V. I. Alekseev 2015
See also Alekseev 2012, Alekseev 2014 and Zahradník and Háva 2014
Sister taxa: Sucinoptinus brevipennis, Sucinoptinus rovnoensis, Sucinoptinus sucini, Sucinoptinus zahradniki
Type specimen: AWI-019, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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