†Coptotomus balticus Hendrich and Balke 2020 (predaceous diving beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Dytiscidae
Full reference: L. Hendrich and M. Balke. 2020. A Baltic amber species of the diving beetle genus Coptotomus Say, 1830 (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae: Coptotominae). Zootaxa 4895:285-290
Belongs to Coptotomus according to L. Hendrich and M. Balke 2020
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Zoologische Staatsammlung, Munich), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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