Thescelostrophus cretaceus Yu et al. 2016 (polypore fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tetratomidae

Full reference: Y. L. Yu, Y. Hsiao, A., J. H. Jin, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2016. A new Late Cretaceous genus and species of polypore fungus beetles (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) from northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 68:34-39

Belongs to Thescelostrophus according to J. Batelka et al. 2018

See also Yu et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CNU-COL-MA2016001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll)

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