Insecta - Coleoptera - Scirtidae
Alternative combination: Cyphon wichardi
Full reference: K. Heuss. 2008. Zur Taxonomie und Ökologie der Schlammkäfer des Baltischen Bernsteins mit einem Gattungsschlüssel und der Beschreibung einer neuen Art (Coleoptera: Scirtidae). Entomologische Zeitschrift 118:131-134
Belongs to Contacyphon according to P. Zwick et al. 2013
See also Heuss 2008 and Klausnitzer 2011
Sister taxa: Contacyphon groehni, Contacyphon herthae, Contacyphon hoffeinsorum, Contacyphon insularis, Contacyphon involutus, Contacyphon keilbachi, Contacyphon kozlovi, Cyphon gallicus, Cyphon krynickyi, Cyphon shevyrevi, Cyphon pallasi, Cyphon lobanovi
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Staatliches Museum fur Naturkunde (SMNS) collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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