Pleuroceratos burmiticus 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

Belongs to Pleuroceratos according to J. Háva 2023

See also Liu et al. 2019 and Poinar and Kirejtshuk 2008

Sister taxa: Pleuroceratos jiewenae, Pleuroceratos tertius

Type specimen: Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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