†Cheirotonus otai Ueda 1989 (scarab beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Scarabaeidae
Full reference: K. Ueda. 1989. A Miocene fossil of long-armed scarabaeid beetle from Tottori, Japan. Bulletin of the Kitakyushu Museum of Natural History 9:105-110
Belongs to Cheirotonus according to K. Ueda 1989
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: KMNH IP 000,001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Okamasu, Kokufu Town, which is in a Miocene lacustrine mudstone in the Fuganji Formation of Japan.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Okamasu, Kokufu Town
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