Prateus angulatus Doyen and Poinar 1994

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combination: Lorelus angulatus

Full reference: J. T. Doyen and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Tenebrionidae from Dominican amber (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 25:27-51

Belongs to Prateus according to R. L. Aalbu et al. 2023

See also Bousquet et al. 2018, Doyen and Poinar 1994, Kirejtshuk et al. 2008 and Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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