Erichia cretacea Yu et al. 2018 (minute marsh loving beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Limnichidae

Full reference: Y. L. Yu, A. Ślipiński, D. Ren and H. Pang. 2018. The first fossil Limnichidae from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera: Byrrhoidea). Annales Zoologici 68:843-848

Belongs to Erichia according to Y. L. Yu et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: CNU-COL-MA2018001, 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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