Cryptorhopalum jantaricum Háva and Prokop 2004 (skin beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Dermestidae

Full reference: J. Háva and J. Prokop. 2004. New fossil dermestid-beetles (Coleoptera: Dermestidae) from the Dominican amber of the Greater Antilles, with an appendix listing known fossil species of this family. Acta Societatis Zoologicae Bohemicae 68:173-182

Belongs to Cryptorhopalum according to G. Poinar and J. Háva 2015

See also Háva and Prokop 2004

Sister taxa: Cryptorhopalum ambericum, Cryptorhopalum dominicanum, Cryptorhopalum electron, Cryptorhopalum kaliki, Cryptorhopalum macieji

Type specimen: Its type locality is Dominican amber, La Toca (Amberica West coll), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Miocene of the Dominican Republic (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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