Palaeocnopus saeticornis Alekseev and Grzymala 2015 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Aderidae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and T. L. Grzymala. 2015. New Aderidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic and Bitterfeld amber. Zootaxa 3956:239-257

Belongs to Palaeocnopus according to V. I. Alekseev and T. L. Grzymala 2015

Sister taxa: Palaeocnopus densipunctatus, Palaeocnopus glabricornis, Palaeocnopus mara

Type specimen: Hoffeins 890-3, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Bitterfeld amber (Hoffeins collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Germany.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Denmark (1 collection), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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