Glesoconomorphus nachzehrer Alekseev et al. 2019 (palm and flower beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycteridae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev, D. A. Pollock, and A. Bukejs. 2019. Two new fossil representatives of Eurypinae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea: Mycteridae) from Eocene Baltic amber and placement of Neopolypria nigra Abdullah, 1964. Zootaxa 4551:67-78

Belongs to Glesoconomorphus according to V. I. Alekseev et al. 2019

Sister taxon: Glesoconomorphus ekaterinae

Type specimen: CCHH 478-2, 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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