Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae
There are also formatted pdf versions of this article bearing the name Ptinus (Gynopterus) balticus. The situation is not clear, but Ptinus balticus is a homonym of a species named by Yablokov-Khnzorian and Karapetyan 1991, so I assume that the homonymy may have been discovered during review or production.
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Alternative combination: Ptinus (Gynopterus) balticus
Full reference: X. Bellés and F. Vitali. 2007. New fossil spider beetles from Baltic amber (Coleoptera Ptinidae). Entomapeiron (P.S.) 2(2):17-28
Belongs to Ptinus (Gynopterus) according to J. Háva and P. Zahradník 2020
See also Alekseev 2014, Bellés and Vitali 2007 and Bukejs and Alekseev 2015
Sister taxa: Ptinus (Gynopterus) anastasiae, Ptinus (Gynopterus) burukovskyi, Ptinus (Gynopterus) electron, Ptinus (Gynopterus) fantii, Ptinus (Gynopterus) groehni, Ptinus (Gynopterus) scalovicus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Vitali collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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