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The first described darkling beetle of the tribe Metaclisini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber

  • 1. Precaspian Institute of Biological Resources of the Daghestan Federal Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences, M. Gadzhiev Str. 45, Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia. & Dagestan State University, 43a M. Gadzhiev Str., Makhachkala, Republic of Dagestan, 367000, Russia
  • 2. Royal Saskatchewan Museum, 2445 Albert St., Regina, SK, S4P 4W7, Canada. & Biology Department, University of Regina, Regina, SK, S4S 0A2, Canada. & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 66045, USA.
  • 3. Institute of Life Sciences and Technologies, Daugavpils University, VienÄ«bas iela 13, Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia. carabidae@inbox.lv; https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7165-3023

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Nabozhenko, Maxim V., Mckellar, Ryan C., Bukejs, Andris (2021): The first described darkling beetle of the tribe Metaclisini (Coleoptera: Tenebrionidae) from Eocene Baltic amber. Zootaxa 4999 (3): 279-284, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.3.7

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https://www.checklistbank.org/dataset/5337
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