Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 291659

Alternative combinations: Hesiodobates antiquus, Nesocyrtosoma antiquus

Full reference: Z. Kaszab and W. Schwaller. 1984. Eine neue Schwarzkäfer-Gattung und -Art aus Dominikanischem Bernstein (Coleoptera, Tenebrionidae). Stuttgarter Beiträge zur Naturkunde Serie B (Geologie und Paläontologie) 109:1-6

Belongs to Nesocyrtosoma according to Y. Bousquet et al. 2018

Sister taxa: Nesocyrtosoma celadonum, Nesocyrtosoma hadratum, Nesocyrtosoma impensum, Nesocyrtosoma minisculum, Nesocyrtosoma phthanatum

Type specimen: SMNS Do-3240-M-1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

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