Nuegua elongata Yin et al. 2018 (antlike stone beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: Z. W. Yin, C. Y. Cai, and A. F. Newton. 2018. Beetle with long 'nose' - A bizarre stem scydmaenine in amber from Myanmar (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research 89:98-106

Belongs to Nuegua according to Z. W. Yin et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: SNUC-Paleo-0016, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (Shanghai Normal University SNUC 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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