Hapsomela burmitis Poinar and Brown 2004 (antlike stone beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: G. Poinar and A. E. Brown. 2004. A new subfamily of Cretaceous antlike stone beetles (Coleoptera: Scydmaenidae: Hapsomelinae) with an extra leg segment. Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington 106:789-796

Belongs to Hapsomela according to Z. W. Yin 2020

See also Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016 and Poinar and Brown 2004

Sister taxa: Hapsomela minor, Hapsomela tibialis

Type specimen: Poinar B-C-11, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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