Euroleptochromus tuberculatus Yin and Cai 2018 (antlike stone beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: Z. W. Yin and C. Y. Cai. 2018. A new fossil species of Euroleptochromus Jałoszyński (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4500:146-150

Belongs to Euroleptochromus according to X. H. Chen and Z. W. Yin 2023

See also Yin and Cai 2018

Sister taxa: Euroleptochromus sabathi, Euroleptochromus setifer

Type specimen: SNUC-Paleo-0046, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (SNUC collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (SNUC collection)

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