Microticus khatanga Lyubarsky and Perkovsky 2015 (silken fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Full reference: G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky. 2015. New genus Microticus from Upper Cretaceous of Taymyr (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae), oldest silken fungus beetle with sexually dimorphic tarsal formula. Russian Entomological Journal 24:61-66

Belongs to Microticus according to G. Y. Lyubarsky and E. E. Perkovsky 2015

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: PIN 3311/1999, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311), which is in a Santonian terrestrial amber in the Kheta Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Taimyr amber, Yantardakh Hill (PIN collection 3311)

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