Insecta - Coleoptera

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev. 2019. A first putative pelecotomine beetle (Сoleoptera: Ripiphoridae) in Tertiary amber of the Kaliningrad Region. Studies and Reports, Taxonomical Series 15:283-292

Parent taxon: Tenebrionoidea according to J. Batelka 2021

See also Alekseev 2019

Sister taxa: Aderidae, Afreminae, Anthicidae, Archaeoripiphorus, Archeocrypticidae, Asiamordella, Boridae, Chalcodryidae, Ciidae, Cossyphodinae, Eurygenius wickhami, Fushunicucujus, Glypta, Ischaliidae, Kulindrobor, Lagrioididae, Liaoximordellidae, Melandryidae, Meloidae, Mordellidae, Mycetophagidae, Mycteridae, Neopolypria, Oedemeridae, Perimylopidae, Prostomidae, Pterogeniidae, Pyrochroidae, Pythidae, Rhipiphoridae, Ripiphoridae, Salpingidae, Scraptiidae, Stenotrachelidae, Synchroidae, Tenebrionidae, Tetratomidae, Trachelostenidae, Trictenotomidae, Ulodidae, Zopheridae

Subtaxa: Samlandotoma seidlitzi

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Type: Samlandotoma seidlitzi

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Eichmann collection) (Eocene of Germany)

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