Euryptychus gerhildae Muona 1993 (false click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Eucnemidae

Full reference: J. Muona. 1993. Eucnemidae and Throscidae from Baltic amber (Coleoptera). Entomologische Blatter 89:15-45

Belongs to Euryptychus according to J. Muona 1993

Sister taxa: Euryptychus acutangulus, Euryptychus antilliensis, Euryptychus brunhildae, Euryptychus burmensis, Euryptychus decoratus, Euryptychus elegantulus, Euryptychus excavatus, Euryptychus helmwigae, Euryptychus hispaniolus, Euryptychus mysticus, Euryptychus siegfriedi, Euryptychus sieglindae, Euryptychus waltrautae

Type specimen: MfN 758, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Bitterfeld amber (MfN collection)

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