†Altica dryophyllorum Piton 1940 (flea beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Chrysomelidae
Alternative combination: Haltica dryophyllorum
Full reference: L. Piton. 1940. Paléontologie du Gisement Éocéne de Menat (Puy-de-Dôme) (Flore et Faune) 1-303
Belongs to Altica according to K. S. Nadein 2019
See also Nadein and Perkovsky 2017 and Piton 1940
Sister taxa: Altica dubia, Altica lazulina, Altica magna, Altica renovata, Altica tholimorpha
Type specimen: Coll. Piton 447, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Menat (Piton collection), which is in a Selandian crater lake diatomite in the Menat Formation of France.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Menat (Piton collection)
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