Tetratoma nikitskyi is a species of polypore fungus beetle found within the family Tetratomidae. Identified by Vitaly I. Alekseev, this species is the first of the Tetratomidae family to be located within the Baltic amber.[1]
| Tetratoma nikitskyi | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Coleoptera |
| Infraorder: | Cucujiformia |
| Family: | Tetratomidae |
| Genus: | Tetratoma |
| Species: | †T. nikitskyi
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| Binomial name | |
| †Tetratoma nikitskyi Alekseev, 2013
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References edit
- ^ Alekseev, Vitaly I. (2013). "The first species of the family Tetratomidae (Coleoptera: Cucujiformia: Tenebrionoidea) from Baltic amber". Baltic Journal of Coleopterology. 13 (2): 131–135. Archived from the original on 2023-01-31.