†Palorus platycotyloides Alekseev and Nabozhenko 2017 (darkling beetle)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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