†Europs insterburgensis Alekseev 2014 (root eating beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae
Full reference: V. I. Alekseev. 2014. Europs insterburgensis sp. nov., a new root-eating beetle from Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Monotomidae). Genus 25:415-420
Belongs to Europs according to A. Bukejs and V. I. Alekseev 2023
See also Alekseev 2014
Sister taxa: Europs groehni, Europs makarovi
Type specimen: AWI-077, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll)
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