Asida (Planasida) groehni Soldati and Nabozhenko 2017

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Alternative combination: Asida groehni

Full reference: F. Soldati and M. V. Nabozhenko. 2017. Asida groehni sp. nov., the first and the oldest fossil representative of the subfamily Pimeliinae from Eocene Baltic amber (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Asidini). Annales Zoologici 67:555-559

Belongs to Asida (Planasida) according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

See also Soldati and Nabozhenko 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: GPIH 4593, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, GPIH collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, GPIH collection

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.