Insecta - Coleoptera - Ripiphoridae

Full reference: Y. Hsiao and C. L. Huang. 2017. Spinotoma ruicheni: A new Late Cretaceous genus and species of wedge-shaped beetle from Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Ripiphoridae, Pelecotominae). Cretaceous Research 82:29-35

Parent taxon: Pelecotominae according to J. Batelka et al. 2018

See also Hsiao and Huang 2017

Sister taxa: Burmitoma, Clinops, Flabellotoma, Plesiotoma

Subtaxa: Spinotoma ruicheni

view classification

Type: Spinotoma ruicheni

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Century Amber Museum/Xiao Jia collection) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

Show more details

Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.