Madelinia gedanoposita Alekseev and Pankowski 2020 (false darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and M. G. Pankowski. 2020. The first new genus of the tribe Hypulini Seidlitz (Coleoptera: Melandryidae) described from late Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4869:281-289

Belongs to Madelinia according to V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2021

See also Alekseev and Pankowski 2020

Sister taxon: Madelinia capillata

Type specimen: MAIG 6692, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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