Nordenskioldia pentatarsus Lefebvre et al. 2005 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Alternative combination: Libanoeuaesthetus pentatarsus

Full reference: F. Lefebvre, B. Vincent, D. Azar and A. Nel. 2005. The oldest beetle of the Euaesthetinae (Staphylinidae) from Early Cretaceous Lebanese amber. Cretaceous Research 26:207-211

Belongs to Nordenskioldia according to S. Chatzimanolis 2018

See also Lefebvre et al. 2005 and Puthz 2008

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Azar 1008, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection), which is in a Barremian terrestrial amber in Lebanon.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection)

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