†Orthoperites Kirejtshuk and Kurochkin 2019 (minute hooded beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Corylophidae
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. S. Kurochkin. 2019. Taxonomic names, in The beetle (Coleoptera) fauna of the Insect Limestone (late Eocene), Isle of Wight, southern England. Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 110:405-492
Parent taxon: Orthoperinae according to A. G. Kirejtshuk and A. S. Kurochkin 2019
Sister taxon: Orthoperus
Subtaxa: Orthoperites antiquus
Type: Orthoperites antiquus
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Bembridge Marls (Brodie coll) (Eocene of the United Kingdom)
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