Insecta - Coleoptera - Ptinidae

Alternative combination: Ptinus anastasiae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev. 2014. New fossil species of Ptinidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) in Baltic amber (Tertiary, Eocene). Zoology and Ecology 24:239-255

Belongs to Ptinus (Gynopterus) according to V. I. Alekseev 2014

See also Bukejs and Alekseev 2015

Sister taxa: Ptinus (Gynopterus) burukovskyi, Ptinus (Gynopterus) electron, Ptinus (Gynopterus) fantii, Ptinus (Gynopterus) groehni, Ptinus (Gynopterus) inclusus, Ptinus (Gynopterus) scalovicus

Type specimen: AWI-087, 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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