Passandra septentrionaria Bukejs et al. 2016 (parasitic flat bark beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Passandridae

Full reference: A. Bukejs, V. I. Alekseev, and R. C. McKellar. 2016. Passandra septentrionaria sp. nov.: the first described species of Passandridae (Coleoptera: Cucujoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4144:117-123

Belongs to Passandra according to M. J. Jin et al. 2019

See also Bukejs et al. 2016

Sister taxon: Passandra plenaria

Type specimen: RSM P3300.013, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (RSKM collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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