Oracula campbelli Nabozhenko and Perkovsky 2023 (comb-clawed beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

Full reference: M. V. Nabozhenko and E. E. Perkovsky. 2023. Oracula campbelli sp. n. - the first fossil darkling beetle (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae: Alleculinae) from the late Eocene Rovno amber (Ukraine). Zootaxa 5230:245-250

Belongs to Oracula according to M. V. Nabozhenko and E. E. Perkovsky 2023

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SIZK K-3503, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZK K collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Ukraine.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Rovno Amber, Klesov locality (SIZK K collection)

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