Lebanophytum Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008 (silken fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and D. Azar. 2008. New taxa of beetles (Insecta, Coleoptera) from Lebanese amber with evolutionary and systematic comments. Alavesia 2:15-46

Parent taxon: Cryptophagidae according to Y. L. Yu et al. 2019

See also Kirejtshuk 2013 and Kirejtshuk and Azar 2008

Sister taxa: Atomariinae, Cryptophaginae

Subtaxa: Lebanophytum excellens

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Type: Lebanophytum excellens

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Lebanese amber, Mdeyrij-Hammana (LU collection) (Cretaceous of Lebanon)

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