†Pentaphyllus cioides Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 (darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk, O. Merkl, and F. Kernegger. 2008. A new species of the genus Pentaphyllus Dejean, 1821 (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae, Diaperinae) from the Baltic amber and checklist of the fossil Tenebrionidae. Zoosystematica Rossica 17:131-137
Belongs to Pentaphyllus according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019
See also Kirejtshuk et al. 2008
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Kernegger 48/2001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Yantarny, Kernegger collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Yantarny, Kernegger collection
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