Vetujinbrianax cretaceus Cai and Huang 2018 (water penny beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Psephenidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2018. First Mesozoic water-penny beetles from Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Psephenidae). Cretaceous Research 91:202-207

Belongs to Vetujinbrianax according to C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP 168215, 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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