Cryphalites Cockerell 1917 (ironclad beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Zopheridae

Full reference: T. D. A. Cockerell. 1917. Arthropods in Burmese amber. The American Journal of Science, Fourth Series 44(263):360-368

Parent taxon: Colydiinae according to D. J. Clarke and R. G. Oberprieler 2018

See also Cockerell 1917, Legalov 2011 and Wood and Bright 1992

Sister taxa: Bifurderum, Colydiini, Coslonatus, Gempylodini, Orthocerini, Stegastochlidus, Synchitini

Subtaxa: Cryphalites rugosissimus

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Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Swinhoe collection, BMNH) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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