Sarothrias cretaceus Cai et al. 2017 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Jacobsoniidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai, A. Ślipiński, R. A. B. Leschen, Z. W. Yin, D. Zhuo and D. Y. Huang. 2017. The first Mesozoic Jacobson’s beetle (Coleoptera: Jacobsoniidae) in Cretaceous Burmese amber and biogeographical stasis. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 16:543-550

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

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 165261, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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