Albocryptophagus cantabricus Peris et al. 2017 (silken fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Cryptophagidae

Full reference: D. Peris, G. Y. Lyubarsky, and E. E. Perkovsky. 2017. A new genus of silken-fungus beetle (Coleoptera: Cryptophagidae) from the Spanish Cretaceous amber. Cretaceous Research 78:191-195

Belongs to Albocryptophagus according to D. Peris et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CES-571, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is El Soplao amber, which is in an Albian terrestrial amber in the Las Penosas Formation of Spain.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at El Soplao amber

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