†Ipelates weitshati Perkovsky 2007 (primitive carrion beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Agyrtidae
Full reference: E. E. Perkovsky. 2007. Novyy Eotsenovyy Ipelates (Coleoptera, Agyrtidae) iz Saksonskogo yantarya. Vestnik Zoologii 41(4):765-767
Belongs to Ipelates according to O. D. Strelnikova et al. 2020
See also Perkovsky 2007
Sister taxon: Ipelates kerneggeri
Type specimen: MfN 8/155, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)
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