Xylolaemus sakhnovi
Extinct species of beetle / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Xylolaemus sakhnovi is an extinct species of cylindrical bark beetle in the family Zopheridae. The species is solely known from the Middle Eocene[1][2] Baltic amber deposits in the Baltic Sea region of Europe. The genus Xylolaemus contains a total of six extant species distributed from western Europe through the Canary Islands and North Africa to India.[3] The species is the first in the genus to be described from a fossil specimen.[2]
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Xylolaemus sakhnovi | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Coleoptera |
Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
Family: | Zopheridae |
Genus: | Xylolaemus |
Species: | †X. sakhnovi |
Binomial name | |
†Xylolaemus sakhnovi Alekseev & Lord, 2014 | |
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