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The 'first fossil tumbling flower beetle' larva is a symphytan (Hymenoptera)

Publikace na Přírodovědecká fakulta |
2022

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A correction is provided regarding the identity of a fossil larva recently reported to represent the fi rst Cretaceous record of its kind for the tenebrionoid family Mordellidae (Coleoptera, tumbling flower beetles). A review of the description of the specimen, however, reveals it to be a larval symphytan (order Hymenoptera), and likely of the family Pamphiliidae.

The evidence for the revised identifi cation is summarized.