Palorus platycotyloides Alekseev and Nabozhenko 2017 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and M. Nabozhenko. 2017. Palorus platycotyloides sp. n., the second fossil representative of the tribe Palorini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Baltic amber. Acta Zoologica Bulgarica 69:167-170

Belongs to Palorus according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

See also Alekseev and Nabozhenko 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CCHH 1229-2, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection

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