Danophaea cimbrica Legalov and Perkovsky 2025 (hairy fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Mycetophagidae

Full reference: A. A. Legalov and E. E. Perkovsky. 2025. Taxonomic names, in Second new genus of hairy fungus beetle (Coleoptera: Mycetophagidae) from Eocene Danish amber. Ecologica Montenegrina 89:98-104

Belongs to Danophaea according to A. A. Legalov and E. E. Perkovsky 2025

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NHMD-154704, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in Denmark.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Danish Amber (University of Copenhagen ZMUC, NHMD Collection)

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