Cretoboganium gei Cai and Huang 2018 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Boganiidae

Full reference: C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang. 2018. First boganiine beetle in mid-Cretaceous amber from northern Myanmar (Coleoptera: Boganiidae). Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 130:81-86

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

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: NIGP167701, 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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