Insecta - Coleoptera - Meloidae

Full reference: G. Poinar. 2015. Taxonomic names, in New genera and species of jumping ground bugs (Hemiptera: Schizopteridae) in Dominican and Burmese amber, with a description of a meloid (Coleoptera: Meloidae) triungulin on a Burmese specimen. Annales de la Société Entomologique de France 50:372-381

Parent taxon: Meloidae according to N. A. Saxton et al. 2026

See also Batelka et al. 2018 and Poinar 2015

Sister taxa: Eleticinae, Meloinae, Nemognathinae, Tremembasis

Subtaxa: Microentomus epibatus

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Type: Microentomus epibatus

Ecology:

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

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