Taphioporus rovnoi Moseyko and Perkovsky 2015 (leaf beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae

Full reference: A. G. Moseyko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2015. Taxonomic names, in New late Eocene Chrysomelidae (Insecta: Coleoptera) from Baltic, Rovno and Danish ambers. Papers in Palaeontology 2:117-137

Belongs to Taphioporus according to A. G. Moseyko and E. E. Perkovsky 2015

Sister taxa: Taphioporus balticus, Taphioporus carsteni, Taphioporus rufous

Type specimen: SIZK K-7122, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZK K collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZK K collection)

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