Phloiotrya Stephens, 1832

Alekseev, Vitalii Igorevich & Bukejs, Andris, 2021, Fossil Melandryidae (Coleoptera: Tenebrionoidea) from Eocene Baltic amber of the Sambian peninsula: new genus, six new species, new records and key to described taxa, Zootaxa 4965 (1), pp. 142-166 : 146

Genus Phloiotrya Stephens, 1832

Note. The specimen under consideration belongs to the genus Phloiotrya within Dircaeini based on the combination of the following characters: metatibial spurs short, pretarsal claws simple, procoxae contiguous, head concealed from above, pronotum without distinct basal impressions, protrochantin invisible, pronotal base margined, lateral pronotal carina present at least in basal part, prosternum not sunken anterior of procoxae, tibiae without transverse ridges, penultimate tarsomere bilobed, antennae short, filiform, frontoclypeal suture indistinct, notosternal suture distinctly carinate, apices of meso- and metatibiae not obliquely truncated, apical maxillary palpomere long and cultriform, body length larger than 5 mm.