Lenax karenae Liu et al. 2019 (root eating beetle)

Insecta - Coleoptera - Monotomidae

Full reference: Z. H. Liu, E. Tihelka, T. C. McElrath and S. Yamamoto. 2019. Taxonomic names, in New minute clubbed beetles (Coleoptera, Monotomidae, Lenacini) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research 107(104255)

Belongs to Lenax according to Z. H. Liu et al. 2019

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: FMNHINS-3966011, an exoskeleton. Its type locality is Burmese amber, Kachin amber (FMNH coll), which is in a Cenomanian terrestrial amber in Myanmar.

Ecology:

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Myanmar (3 collections)

Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence

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