Protonicagus tani Cai et al. 2017 (stag beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Lucanidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai, Z. W. Yin, Y. Liu and D. Y. Huang. 2017. Protonicagus tani gen. et sp. nov., the first stag beetles from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Lucanidae: Aesalinae: Nicagini). Cretaceous Research 78:109-112

Belongs to Protonicagus according to C. Y. Cai et al. 2017

Sister taxon: Protonicagus mandibularis

Type specimen: NIGP 165188, 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)

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