Podistra (Absidia) kloevedali Fanti and Damgaard 2018 (soldier beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Lycocerus kloevedali

Full reference: F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard. 2018. Fossil soldier beetles from Baltic amber of the Anders Damgaard amber collection (Coleoptera Cantharidae). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 18:1-32

Belongs to Podistra (Absidia) according to F. Fanti and A. L. Damgaard 2020

See also Fanti and Damgaard 2018 and Kazantsev 2020

Sister taxa: Podistra (Absidia) jirii, Podistra (Absidia) mattheseni, Podistra (Absidia) quies

Type specimen: ALDC0457/ALD.Ba.Can.21, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Damgaard collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Damgaard collection)

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