Procileoporus burmiticus Yamamoto 2016 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: S. Yamamoto. 2016. The oldest tachyporine rove beetle in amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae): A new genus and species from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 65:163-171

Belongs to Procileoporus according to S. Yamamoto 2021

See also Chatzimanolis 2018 and Yamamoto 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SY4, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (AMNH collection)

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