Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: R. Kohring and T. Schlüter. 1989. Historische und paläontologische Bestandsaufnahme des Simetits, eines fossilen Harzes mutmaßlich mio/pliozänen Alters aus Sizilien. Documenta Naturae 56:33-58
Parent taxon: Scydmaeninae according to P. Jałoszyński and E. Perkovsky 2016
See also Kohring and Schlüter 1989 and Newton and Franz 1998
Sister taxa: Cephenniitae, Cryptodiodon, Electroscydmaenus, Hapsomelitae, Hetereuthia, Heuretus, Mastiginae, Mastigitae, Palaeothia, Pinitoides, Scydmaenitae, Scydmaenoides, Semnodioceras
Subtaxa: Microlynx franzbesucheti
Type: Microlynx franzbesucheti
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Sicilian amber (Freie Universität Berlin coll) (Miocene of Italy)
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