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Rhipidandrus quadripapillatus Doyen and Poinar 1994 (darkling beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tenebrionidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 291647

Full reference: J. T. Doyen and G. O. Poinar. 1994. Tenebrionidae from Dominican amber (Coleoptera). Entomologica Scandinavica 25:27-51

Belongs to Rhipidandrus according to M. V. Nabozhenko 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber (Poinar coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic

Ecology:

Average measurements (in mm): body 2.80 x 0.90, elytron 1.70 x 0.40