Protopeplus Cai and Huang 2014 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2014. The oldest micropepline beetle from Cretaceous Burmese amber and its phylogenetic implications (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae). Naturwissenschaften 101:813-817

Parent taxon: Micropeplinae according to C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang 2014

Sister taxa: Arrhenopeplus, Kalissus, Micropeplus

Subtaxa: Protopeplus cretaceus

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Type: Protopeplus cretaceus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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