Palaeostena Kubisz 2003 (tumbling flower beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mordellidae

Alternative spelling: Falsomordellistena (Palaeostena)

Full reference: D. Kubisz. 2003. A new fossil species from the genus Falsomordellistena Ermisch, 1941 (Coleoptera, Mordellidae) with description of a new subgenus. Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia 46(Suppl):185-188

Parent taxon: Mordellistenini according to J. Batelka et al. 2023

See also Kubisz 2003

Sister taxa: Baltistena, Mordellistena, Rovnostena

Subtaxa: Palaeostena eocenica

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Type: Falsomordellistena (Palaeostena) eocenica

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber, ISEA Krakow collection (Eocene of Poland)

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