Synchita Hellwig 1792 (ironclad beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae

Synonym: Cicones Curtis 1827

Full reference: J. C. L. Hellwig. 1792. Dritte Nachricht von neuen Gattungen im entomologischen System. Neuestes Magazin für die Liebhaber der Entomologie 1(4):385-408

Parent taxon: Synchitini according to V. I. Alekseev 2022

See also Ivie et al. 2016 and Wickham 1913

Sister taxa: Antilissus, Bitoma, Bulasconotus, Diodesma, Endophloeus, Eucicones, Namunaria, Paleoendeitoma, Semicoxelus, Xylolaemus

Subtaxa: Synchita andrisbukejsi

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Kaliningrad Amber Museum collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)

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