Cascomastigus minor Yin et al. 2018 (antlike stone beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: Z. W. Yin, C. Y. Cai, and D. Y. Huang. 2018. A potentially diverse fauna of springtail-hunting scydmaenines during the late Mesozoic (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research 90:163-167

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

Sister taxon: Clidicostigus arachnipes

Type specimen: NIGP 167912, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (NIGP collection)

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