Megapenthes groehni Schimmel 2005 (click beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Elateridae

Full reference: R. Schimmel. 2005. Die Megapenthini-Arten Süd- und Südostasiens, Vierter Teil: Phylogenese, Zoogeographie und Katalog. Pollichia-Buch 48:1-411

Belongs to Megapenthes according to R. Kundrata et al. 2021

See also Schimmel 2005

Sister taxa: Megapenthes primaevus, Megapenthes voigti

Type specimen: GPIH 4463, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection

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