Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: D. J. Clarke and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. Antiquity and long-term morphological stasis in a group of rove beetles (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae): Description of the oldest Octavius species from Cretaceous Burmese amber and a review of the "Euaesthetine subgroup" fossil record. Cretaceous Research 30:1426-1434
Belongs to Octavius according to S. Chatzimanolis 2018
See also Clarke and Chatzimanolis 2009
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: AMNH Bu-562, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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