Insecta - Coleoptera - Lophocateridae
Full reference: S. E. Tshernyshev, V. Alekseev, A. Bukejs, D. V. Vasilenko, A. A. Legalov and E. E. Perkovsky. 2025. Jiricateres - new extinct genus of Lophocateridae (Coleoptera: Cleroidea) from late Eocene European amber. Zootaxa 5715:476-488
Belongs to Jiricateres according to S. E. Tshernyshev et al. 2025
Sister taxa: Jiricateres alleni, Jiricateres damzeni, Jiricateres ukrainicus
Type specimen: KAM 5124/144, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber (Kaliningrad Amber Museum collection), which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Eocene of the Russian Federation (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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