Seidlitzella hoffeinsorum Kolibáč and Alekseev 2018 (bark gnawing beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae

Full reference: J. Kolibáč and V. Alekseev. 2018. Seidlitzella hoffeinsorum sp. nov., the first representative of the beetle tribe Gymnochilini (Coleoptera: Trogossitidae) from Baltic amber. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 107:289-296

Belongs to Seidlitzella according to J. Kolibáč and V. Alekseev 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CCHH 1753-1, 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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