Insecta - Coleoptera - Lepiceridae
Alternative combinations: Lepiceroides pretiosus, Lepicerus pretiosus
Full reference: A. G. Kirejtshuk and G. Poinar. 2013. On the systematic position of the genera Lepiceroides gen. n. and Haplochelus, with notes on the taxonomy and phylogeny of the Myxophaga (Coleoptera). Insect Evolution in an Ambiferous and Stone Alphabet 55-69
Belongs to Lepichelus according to A. G. Kirejtshuk et al. 2023
See also Jałoszyński and Yamamoto 2017, Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2013 and Kirejtshuk and Poinar 2017
Sister taxon: Lepichelus mumia
Type specimen: Poinar B-C-46, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin Amber (Poinar collection)
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