†Propiestus archaicus Yamamoto et al. 2018 (rove beetle)
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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
Belongs to Propiestus according to S. Yamamoto et al. 2018
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: FMNHINS-3741462, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.
Ecology:
Distribution: found only at Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll)
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