Lathridius jantaricus Borowiec 1985 (minute brown scavenger beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Latridiidae

Full reference: L. Borowiec. 1985. Two new species of Lathridius sensu lato (Coleoptera, Lathridiidae) from Baltic amber. Polskie Pismo Entomologiczne 55:251-254

Belongs to Lathridius according to H. P. Reike 2012

See also Borowiec 1985, Kubisz 2000, Reike et al. 2013 and Reike et al. 2017

Sister taxa: Latridius (Coninomus), Latridius alexeevi, Latridius jantaricus

Type specimen: MZP 5646, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Museum Ziemi collection)

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