†Hukawngichthyurus kyawkhaingwini Fanti and Ellenberger 2018 (soldier beetle)
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Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae
Full reference: F. Fanti and S. Ellenberger. 2018. A new fossil genus of soldier beetles (Coleoptera: Cantharidae) from mid-Cretaceous Burmese amber: A probable case of adaptive convergence. Cretaceous Research 92:201-204
Belongs to Hukawngichthyurus according to F. Fanti and S. Ellenberger 2018
Sister taxa: Hukawngichthyurus barsevskisi, Hukawngichthyurus ditaddeoi, Hukawngichthyurus maha
Type specimen: SMNS BU-336, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (SMNS coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (SMNS coll)
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