Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Alternative combination: Cretoleptochromus archaicus

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2016. Cretoleptochromus archaicus gen. et sp. nov., a new genus of ant-like stone beetles in Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Scydmaeninae). Cretaceous Research 63:7-13

Belongs to Clidicus according to P. Jałoszyński et al. 2018

See also Cai and Huang 2016 and Jałoszyński and Perkovsky 2016

Sister taxon: Clidicus burmiticus

Type specimen: NIGP 163304, 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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