†Cretodeinopsis aenigmatica Cai and Huang 2015 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2015. The oldest aleocharine rove beetle (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber and its implications for the early evolution of the basal group of hyper-diverse Aleocharinae. Gondwana Research 28:1579-1584
Belongs to Cretodeinopsis according to S. Chatzimanolis 2018
See also Cai and Huang 2015 and Yamamoto et al. 2016
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: NIGP 157736, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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