Microscapha kugelanni Alekseev and Bukejs 2021 (false darkling beetle)

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 Microscapha according to V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2021

Sister taxon: Microscapha andrzeji

Type specimen: AWI-141, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Alekseev coll)

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