Allostrophus cretaceus Hsiao et al. 2018 (polypore fungus beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Tetratomidae

Full reference: Y. Hsiao, A. Ślipiński, Y. L. Yu, C. S. Deng, and H. Pang. 2018. Allostrophus cretaceus gen. et sp. nov.: A new polypore fungus beetle (Coleoptera, Tetratomidae) from the Cretaceous Myanmar amber. Cretaceous Research 92:195-200

Belongs to Allostrophus according to Y. Hsiao et al. 2018

Sister taxon: Allostrophus yangi

Type specimen: CNU-COL-MA20160201, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (CNU coll)

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