Pleuroceratos Poinar and Kirejtshuk 2008 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Phloeostichidae

Full reference: G. Poinar and A. G. Kirejtshuk. 2008. Taxonomic names, in Pleuroceratos burmiticus n. gen., n. sp. (Coleoptera: Silvanidae) from Early Cretaceous Burmese amber. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 110:250-257

Parent taxon: Phloeostichidae according to J. Háva 2023

See also Kirejtshuk and Reid 2021, Kirejtshuk et al. 2019, Liu et al. 2019, Poinar and Kirejtshuk 2008 and Tihelka et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Hymaeinae, Phloeostichinae

Subtaxa: Pleuroceratos burmiticus Pleuroceratos jiewenae Pleuroceratos tertius

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Type: Pleuroceratos burmiticus

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (4 collections)

Total: 4 collections including 5 occurrences

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