Dolichoxenus newtoni Engel and Chatzimanolis 2009 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: M. S. Engel and S. Chatzimanolis. 2009. An oxyteline rove beetle in Dominican amber with possible African affinities (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Oxytelinae). Annals of the Carnegie Museum 77:425-429

Belongs to Dolichoxenus according to S. Chatzimanolis 2018

See also Cai et al. 2016 and Engel and Chatzimanolis 2009

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: MACT-1810, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Dominican amber (Morone Amber Collection), which is in a Burdigalian/Langhian terrestrial amber in the Dominican Republic.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Dominican amber (Morone Amber Collection)

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