Mesosymbion compactus Yamamoto et al. 2016 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: S. Yamamoto, M. Maruyama, and J. Parker. 2016. Evidence for social parasitism of early insect societies by Cretaceous rove beetles. Nature Communications 7(13658):1-9

Belongs to Mesosymbion according to S. Chatzimanolis 2018

See also Yamamoto et al. 2016

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: AMNH Bu-SY5, 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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