†Festenus gracilis Żyła et al. 2017 (rove beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae
Full reference: D. Żyła, S. Yamamoto, K. Wolf-Schwenninger and A. Solodovnikov. 2017. Cretaceous origin of the unique prey-capture apparatus in megadiverse genus: stem lineage of Steninae rove beetles discovered in Burmese amber. Scientific Reports 7(45904):1-15
Belongs to Festenus according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2019
See also Żyła et al. 2017
Sister taxon: Festenus robustus
Type specimen: SMNS Bu-119/1, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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