†Mesosmicrips cretacea Cai and Huang 2016 (palmetto beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Smicripidae
Alternative combination: Smicrips cretacea
Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2016. The first Mesozoic palmetto beetle (Coleoptera: Smicripidae) in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 64:45-49
Belongs to Mesosmicrips according to A. G. Kirejtshuk 2017
See also Cai and Huang 2016
Sister taxon: Mesosmicrips sunae
Type specimen: NIGP 163547, 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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