†Dicladispa beskonakensis Nel 1988 (leaf-mining beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Full reference: A. Nel. 1988. Deux Dicladispa fossiles des gisements de diatomites Néogènes de Bes-Konak (Turquie) et de Murat (France) (Coleoptera, Chrysomelidae, Hispinae). Geobios 21:369-374
Belongs to Dicladispa according to A. Nel 1988
Sister taxon: Dicladispa muratensis
Type specimen: MNHN-IPMB-47738, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bes-Konak, which is in an Aquitanian lacustrine - large diatomite in Turkey.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bes-Konak
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