†Rhizophtoma synchrotronica Kirejtshuk 2013 (root eating beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2013. Taxonomic names, in Current knowledge of Coleoptera (Insecta) from the Lower Cretaceous Lebanese amber and taxonomical notes for some Mesozoic groups. Terrestrial Arthropod Reviews 6:103-134
Belongs to Rhizophtoma according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2013
Sister taxa: Rhizophtoma elateroides, Rhizophtoma longus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)
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