Leiestes Chevrolat 1836 (handsome fungus beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Endomychidae
Full reference: L. A. A. Chevrolat. 1836. New taxa. Catalogue des Coléoptères de la collection de M. le Comte Dejean 361-443
Parent taxon: Leiestinae according to V. I. Alekseev and A. Bukejs 2022
Sister taxa: Burmalestes, Cretolestes, Glesirhanis, Palaeoestes, Phymaphoroides, Trycherus
Subtaxa: Leiestes tomaszewskae
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection) (Eocene of Poland)
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