Smicrips gorskii Bukejs and Kirejtshuk 2015 (palmetto beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Smicripidae

Full reference: A. Bukejs and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2015. A new species of the genus Smicrips Le Conte (Coleoptera: Smicripidae) from Baltic amber. Paleontological Journal 49:1417-1419

Belongs to Smicrips according to A. Bukejs and A. G. Kirejtshuk 2015

Sister taxa: Smicrips europeus, Smicrips fudalai

Type specimen: AG BB 4932, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber, Andrzej Gorski collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber, Andrzej Gorski collection

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