Propiestus Yamamoto et al. 2018 (rove beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Staphylinidae

Full reference: S. Yamamoto, E. Caron, and S. Bortoluzzi. 2018. Propiestus archaicus, the first Mesozoic amber inclusion of piestine rove beetles and its evolutionary and biogeographical significance (Coleoptera: Staphylinidae: Piestinae). Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 17:1037-1050

Parent taxon: Piestinae according to S. Yamamoto et al. 2018

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: Propiestus archaicus

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Type: Propiestus archaicus

Ecology:

Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll) (Cretaceous of Myanmar)

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