Synchita Hellwig 1792 (ironclad beetle)
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.
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
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Kaliningrad Amber Museum collection) (Eocene of Russian Federation)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.