Insecta - Coleoptera - Cantharidae

Alternative combination: Ornatomalthinus ruicheni

Full reference: Y. Hsiao and C. L. Huang. 2018. Taxonomic revision on the genus Ornatomalthinus Poinar and Fanti (Coleoptera: Cantharidae), with description of a new species from the Cretaceous Burmese amber. Cretaceous Research 92:257-263

Belongs to Sanaungulus according to F. Fanti 2018

See also Hsiao and Huang 2018

Sister taxa: Sanaungulus christensenae, Sanaungulus curtipennis, Sanaungulus dominikiweissbachi, Sanaungulus dunlopi, Sanaungulus electrum, Sanaungulus emarginaticollis, Sanaungulus fabriciusi, Sanaungulus franziskaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus ghitaenoerbyae, Sanaungulus havai, Sanaungulus imparitibius, Sanaungulus kachinensis, Sanaungulus kirstenaeweissbachae, Sanaungulus laticoxa, Sanaungulus leniae, Sanaungulus lethi, Sanaungulus morellii, Sanaungulus multiramus, Sanaungulus myanmaricus, Sanaungulus myitkyinaensis, Sanaungulus nalae, Sanaungulus nilsi, Sanaungulus perkovskyi, Sanaungulus peteriruedeli, Sanaungulus rosenzweigi, Sanaungulus ruficollis, Sanaungulus temporiscapsula, Sanaungulus troelsikloevedali, Sanaungulus ypogaeum

Type specimen: STJR001, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber (Paleo-diary Museum of Natural History collection), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber (Paleo-diary Museum of Natural History collection)

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