Trochoideus cruciatus Dalman 1826 (handsome fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae

Alternative combination: Paussus cruciatus

Full reference: J. W. Dalman. 1826. Om insekter inneslutne i Copal; jemte beskrifning på några deribland förekommande nya slägten och arter. Kongliga Vetenskaps-Akademiens Handlingar 1825:375-410

Belongs to Trochoideus according to V. I. Alekseev and W. Tomaszewska 2018

See also Dalman 1826 and Shockley et al. 2009

Sister taxa: Trochoideus koenigsbergicus, Trochoideus resinatissimus

Type specimen: Its type locality is East Africa Copal (Stockholm coll), which is in a Holocene terrestrial amber in Tanzania

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at East Africa Copal (Stockholm coll)

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