†Symphora pollocki 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 Symphora according to V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2021
Sister taxon: Symphora glaesonauta
Type specimen: MAIG 6713, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection)
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