Potergosoma gratiosum Kovalev and Kirejtshuk 2013

Insecta - Coleoptera - Throscidae

Alternative combination: Potergosoma gratiosa

Full reference: A. V. Kovalev and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2013. Taxonomic names, in The oldest representatives of the family Throscidae (Coleoptera: Elateriformia) from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Cretaceous Research 44:157-165

Belongs to Potergosoma according to Y. D. Li et al. 2020

See also Kovalev and Kirejtshuk 2013 and Muona 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Azar 750, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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