Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae
Full reference: G. Y. Lyubarsky and A. Bukejs. 2022. Two new fossil species of the genus Atomaria Stephens (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) from Eocene European amber with a key to species described from fossil resins. Zootaxa 5188:283-289
Belongs to Atomaria (Anchicera) according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2024
See also Lyubarsky et al. 2023 and Lyubarsky and Bukejs 2022
Sister taxa: Atomaria (Anchicera) archibaldi, Atomaria (Anchicera) bukejsi, Atomaria (Anchicera) gedanicola, Atomaria (Anchicera) groehni, Atomaria (Anchicera) perkovskyi, Atomaria (Anchicera) propinqua, Atomaria (Anchicera) telnovi
Type specimen: MAIG 6831, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (University of Gdansk MAI collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Poland.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of Poland (1 collection), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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