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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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