Insecta - Coleoptera - Melandryidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 319248

Alternative combination: Abdera hoffeinsorum

Full reference: V. I. Alekseev. 2014. New taxa of Baltic amber false darkling beetles (Coleoptera: Melandryidae). Baltic Journal of Coleopterology 14:79-96

Belongs to Abdera (Abdera) according to V. I. Alekseev 2014

Sister taxon: Abdera (Abdera) rikojotensis

Type specimen: Hoffeins 824-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Baltic Amber, Hoffeins/Deutsches Entomologische Institut collection, which is in a Priabonian terrestrial amber in the Russian Federation.

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Average measurements (in mm): body 2.87 x 1.00