†Ligaschonus succiniripae Alekseev et al. 2025 (bark gnawing beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Trogossitidae
Full reference: V. Alekseev, M. V. Pankowski, and A. Bukejs. 2025. A new bark-gnawing beetle (Coleoptera: Cleroidea: Trogossitidae) from Baltic amber. Zootaxa 5631:380-386
Belongs to Ligaschonus according to V. Alekseev et al. 2025
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: KAM 9137, an exoskeleton (elytron). Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Kaliningrad Amber Museum collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Baltic Amber (Kaliningrad Amber Museum collection)
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