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specimen is incomplete, with the lower legs missing, and the body preserved as a quartz cast attached to the matrix by a thin ridge of matrix. Frič was of the opinion that the shrunken wing casings indicated an individual still finishing pupating, the small cavity containing the beetle being a cast
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