†Megapenthes voigti Schimmel 2005 (click beetle)
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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 groehni, Megapenthes primaevus
Type specimen: GPIH 4469, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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