†Phloiotrya inmarinata Alekseev and Bukejs 2021 (false darkling beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae
Full reference: V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs. 2021. Fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula: new genus, six new species, new records and key to described taxa. Zootaxa 4965:142-166
Belongs to Phloiotrya according to V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2021
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: MWO MMO 1 7657/945, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic amber (Ocean Museum Kaliningrad collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic amber (Ocean Museum Kaliningrad collection)
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