Protoliota antennatus Liu et al. 2019 (beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Silvanidae

Full reference: Z. H. Liu, A. Ślipiński, B. Wang and H. Pang. 2019. The oldest Silvanid beetles from the Upper Cretaceous Burmese amber (Coleoptera, Silvanidae, Brontinae). Cretaceous Research 98:1-8

Belongs to Protoliota according to C. Y. Cai and D. Y. Huang 2019

See also Liu et al. 2019

Sister taxon: Protoliota paleus

Type specimen: NIGP169600, 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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