Trientoma nascens Doyen and Poinar 1994 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combination: Trientoma hascens

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

Belongs to Trientoma according to Y. Bousquet et al. 2018

See also 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

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Poinar coll)

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