†Madelinia gedanoposita Alekseev and Pankowski 2020 (false darkling beetle)
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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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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