†Spinotoma ruicheni Hsiao and Huang 2017 (wedge shaped beetle)
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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
Belongs to Spinotoma according to J. Batelka et al. 2018
See also Hsiao and Huang 2017
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Century Amber Museum 0200800257, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Century Amber Museum/Xiao Jia collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Century Amber Museum/Xiao Jia collection)
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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